by Learning Mama | Jul 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
Do you do any nature journalling or notebooks with your children? If not, this a great time of year to start! We’ve been enjoying learning all about our local wildflowers as they are appearing both in our backyard an along our hiking trails. We are also amazed...
by Learning Mama | Jun 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
If you’ve seen my curriculum choices, you will have noticed I use a lot of Peace Hill Press’ products! We are currently using Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading, First Language Lessons, Story of the World, and Writing With Ease....
by Learning Mama | Jun 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
One of my great goals and aims in educating my children is that they develop self discipline and become life long lovers of learning. That’s what we all want, isn’t it? We want to see our children grow in knowledge and develop a passion for some subject or...
by Learning Mama | Jun 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
Poetry memorization hasn’t been much of a problem for us, and we have really enjoyed working through the selections in Levels 1 & 2 of First Language Lessons for the Well Trained Mind. Less enjoyable, but still easily accomplished were the parts of speech...
by Learning Mama | May 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
Spring has officially arrived and we have been spending a lot of time outdoors. We’ve been playing in our backyard, eating on the lawn, and planting our gardens. We’ve also made a few visits to our local conservation area which has 6 kms of trails to...
by Learning Mama | Apr 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
Our relaxed, year round schedule of home education lends itself well to ensuring that there is much fun being had at our house! That’s one of the reasons I favour year round schooling – it allows us to have a lighter load and also to “drop...
