Life Between Loads of Laundry
I’m sure that I’m like a lot of other homeschoolers in that I can’t help myself but to worry about what we’re covering and, more importantly, what we’re not covering each year. I don’t have a school board or state board of education telling me what I should and shouldn’t do in my lesson plans. Instead, I’m piecing together an education the best that I can, and there’s a lot of pressure that comes with that. Here’s the thing that {Read More}
If you have young children (or work with them), you may enjoy the activities and ideas that are found in my eBook, Finding Educational Activities in the Most Unexpected Places. Through the end of the day on September 27th, it can be picked up for free on the Kindle! You don’t even have to have a Kindle to read it (or other Kindle books), you can just use a Kindle reading app which is available for many smart phones, the {Read More}
Okay, honestly – I don’t even think I got that sentence correct. I know it’s close, but it’s still probably off. It’s been a lot of years since I studied French. But, here we are, working on French anyway. We finally decided (as you may have figured out on our curriculum post for this year), that we didn’t really jive with Spanish when we tried Rosetta Stone, we liked Latin for scientific names and prayers but weren’t crazy about it {Read More}
We love going to the Farmers Market. From the sights to the smells to all the wonderful things that are locally produced or grown, all just waiting for us to take home. Another thing that we love about the Farmers Market are all the opportunities to learn! At The Happy Housewife, I am sharing ideas for many learning opportunities that abound at the Farmers Market.
Money management and budgeting can be a difficult concept to teach to kids, especially if money management is not your forte. (Don’t be offended by that statement if you’re a poor money manager. I only know it’s hard because both Eric and I have a hard time being as responsible with money as we should be.) However, money management is an important home ec/life skill, and the earlier that people can learn how to handle money appropriately, the better it {Read More}
I would hope that it is obvious why you should be teaching home ec skills to your children, because, of course, they are life skills. No matter where your children go to school each day (the local public school, a private or parochial school, or your kitchen table), they are depending on you to teach them how to function in life. These are some of the skills they need! Before I get into my Top Ten {Tuesday} (which is hosted {Read More}
Struggling reader, reluctant reader, whatever you call it — Noah (who has Asperger’s Syndrome) definitely had an extremely difficult time reading when he was younger. When he left school after second grade, they told me that he was just barely at grade level. Of course, what this meant is that he was just barely at a second grade level when he was at the end of second grade. Even once he came home for school, he was still a struggling {Read More}
Yesterday, as Molly was getting ready to go to the backyard, she stopped at the door to our screened in porch. “Uh….Mom.” “Yes?” I answered, while doing dishes. “What’s that slithering thing on the porch?” Let me tell you that while my next step was to casually say, “I’ll be there in a second,” as I dried off my hands, in my head, it was more like this, “ONLY ONE THING I KNOW SLITHERS!” This was followed in my head {Read More}
~ 1 ~ After several years of a closed photography business, I actually did a session (well, a two-in-one session) this past weekend. While it was weird to be doing it again, it was for a very special reason. I got to take senior pictures of one of my nieces and one of my nephews. I had been dreading all of the work that would be involved, but instead – we had a wonderful time. It was a hoot! It {Read More}
This spring and summer have been full of great learning opportunities for our boys, as well as the benefit of some wonderful family time. We’ve been able to work on things that I normally feel like we just don’t have time to work on during the school year (which is probably ridiculous to say, since we homeschool and should just work on whatever we want). Noah and Eric worked together to build a large bird house. Eric also worked with {Read More}
