One of my favorite parts of homeschooling is during the holidays when we can theme a lot of our school activities around the holiday! With a baby, I'm feeling a little behind, but I have started planning some Halloween homeschool activities to do with the kids this Halloween and I wanted to share them here! Halloween Crafts Skeleton Paper Garland For this activity, you use paper chains to make a large skeleton . We have already done a few simple skeleton activities this year

We have been using Reading Eggs in our homeschool for a few years now and I thought it might be useful to share what I like about it, what I haven't liked, and how we use it with our kids for homeschool. Reading Eggs is an app and website that teaches reading and math through different online programs that have learning pathways . The pathways include games, videos, books, and tests/quizzes . It can be used on a computer or on your phone. It is about $10 a month and allows

I love doing holiday-themed activities with my kids and this year I decided to choose one Halloween-y topic to dive deeper into with my kids! I picked skeletons and we had a lot of fun with it. Books on Skeletons The core of our unit studies are always books. Here are the books we read together: Understanding Muscles and the Skeleton by Robert Snedden This book has a lot of information spanning the skeletal system. Because my kids are young, I didn't read all of this with th

One of my favorite traditions (that encompasses most of our other traditions) is our Book Advent. This is a tradition we have where the...

A few weeks ago, my oldest daughter Ashtyn (age 8) caught some caterpillars at her grandparents' house. She has always loved bugs and...

When I became a mom, I knew that I wanted to share my love of reading with my kids. I started off reading a lot to my firstborn and after having my second, I read the Read Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease. That book only grew my passion of reading aloud. Sometimes, there are books my kids love that I have a harder time reading aloud and other times, I find a book that is an absolute joy no matter how many times my kids ask me to read it to them. Today I am sharing some of my FA