Five Days of Canadian Food {with recipes!} Day 2 – Chow
Today's recipe is a family favourite. It's my mother's recipe for her grandmother's green tomato chow; she brought the recipe with her to Ontario from Nova Scotia around 80 years ago. I grew up on this stuff - it is especially delicious served on roast beef. I even...
Five Days of Canadian Food {with recipes!} Day 1 – Maple Syrup
Today's post is the first in a series I'm doing featuring Canadian food and recipes! Every country or culture has it's own unique cuisine that make up it's own particular identity. Canada is a country made up of people of various cultural backgrounds and traditions....
Nature Study: A Relaxed, Enjoyable Education for Summer
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 at the...
Five Reasons I Love Peace Hill Press!
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. Here's what I love about...
Celebrating Canada – Lapbooking the Provinces of Canada {Free Printable!}
Canada Day is one of our family's favourite holidays! We usually celebrate by dressing the part and taking in our local festivities. We attend our community's pancake breakfast, parade, and fireworks.This year we are having some extra fun by adding some Canada themed...
Thoughts On Self Education
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 other. But...
First Language Lessons – Memory List Printables
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...
Our Relaxed Classical Curriculum – Including Next Year’s Picks!
It's that time of year again when many homeschoolers are wrapping up their year. Finishing some subjects early (way to go you homeschooling superstars!) and trying to plough through where you may have fallen behind. It's a great time for evaluating the year; what...
A Spring Nature Walk
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 explore wetlands,...
Getting Started (Again) With Nature Notebooks
I made a delightful discovery a week or so ago while riffling through some boxes in the basement - a tote bag stocked with three pretty notebooks and several pencils. These notebooks were our nature journals from two years ago! I have some sweet memories of walking...
