When you have a 2-year-old who wants to be just like his big sister in 2nd grade, sometimes you have to start some things early. My son is super interested in numbers and I’m following up that interest in a manner heavily influenced by the Montessori method. It’s the same method I used with my…
Table Manners for Kids
In this blog post, I share why and how we started incorporating a formal lunch hour with dining etiquette practice into our homeschool. I also list the 11 Essential Table Manners I’m teaching my 6 year-old and 3 year-old. If you’d like a free one-page table manners checklist for kids, designed to make learning etiquette…
Second Grade Homeschool Curriculum End-of-Year Review
In this post, I’m sharing my final thoughts on our second grade homeschool curriculum choices that I did with my 5/6 year old this academic year. We follow a traditional American school calendar – September through May – so we’re just now finishing up. I wrote a blog post for my midyear review and spoiler……
Rigorous Home Education: Review of The Well-Trained Mind
In this post, I give an overview of The Well-Trained Mind by Susan Wise Bauer and talk about why I recommend it to wannabe homeschoolers who don’t know where to start. I also share what I consider to be the highlights of the book as well as a few caveats based on my own experience….
Teacher Appreciation Gift Ideas
This might be a bit odd for a homeschool blogger to write about, but if you have kids in extracurricular activities, your student has other teachers besides you. Some you might not have even thought about. With a few exceptions, the end of the academic year is when I start thinking of teacher appreciation gift…
