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You daringly dashed out, kids in tow, to the pumpkin patch this year and proudly hauled your pumpkin loot home. Now, what is the next natural step but to carve away! Right? Hold it! You want Halloween to be filled with fake gore, not real severed fingers. Before you break out the candles and knives, [...]
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Have you ever wondered about those tiny numbered stickers you find on produce at the grocery store? They’re called PLU codes, which stands for “price-look-up”, and there are over 1300 different codes! Notice how the cashier at the store weighs the produce and enters the PLU code at the cash register. This is how the [...]
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Unlike early homeschoolers, who suffered from a lack of exciting resources, people that are educating their children today get overloaded with choices and programs. Today you practically have to swim through a sea of resources- both physical and digital- and figure out what you should use. How can I find the right resources? There are [...]
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I was looking for a pull-apart bread recipe on Pinterest. I wanted to make it as an appetizer to take to a friend’s house. Every recipe I found either used processed, packaged bread or it wasn’t really “pull-apart”. So I decided to tweak my favorite bread recipe and make my own pull-apart version. This is [...]
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Imagination is more important than knowledge. -Einstein Creative thinking is a skill that needs to be honed. As humans, we all possess the capacity to be creative- to invent, design, and express through various forms. But that capacity can be muted or developed. Children create naturally. They are usually immune to fear of judgment or [...]
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Writing poetry is like painting with words. You can have all the tools for painting- brush, paints, canvas- and never really create anything from the heart. You can write poetry as an assignment, but unless it comes from the inner self it is just words on paper. That isn’t to say that poems written within [...]
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Have you ever planned and organized a seemingly awesome field trip for your kids only to be disappointed in how little they paid attention, how boring it was, or how they behaved? Did the field trip feel like a failure? Whether you attend regular field trips with your local homeschool group or you plan them [...]
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How I Learned is an autobiography that began in a series of blog posts on Shamus’ blog Twenty Sided. It is the story of one boy who struggled through the education system because it didn’t understand him. From the preface to the book: If you ever sat in a classroom and felt like the entire system [...]
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“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” -Alvin Toffler Last week while we were on vacation I became fascinated with the coloring book I had bought for my daughters to do in the car. The book was full of [...]
Read More →I found this amazing recipe for oatmeal breakfast cookies. The original recipe calls them granola bars, but I try not to call things that I make with traditional store-bought names because I think what I make at home is much healthier, and I want my kids to know the difference. I adapted this recipe for [...]
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It is that time of year already. The weather is cooling and everyone is thinking about the upcoming holidays. As you make up your gift lists for the year, think about how you can bless each person with something homemade and recycled. Children are especially easy to make gifts for. A specially made toy or [...]
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The word organic has become a broadly used term in our culture today. Everything from food to gardening soil has been labeled organic. How do you know what products to trust and buy? What does organic mean? The term organic in the most generic sense simply means living or derived from living things. In this [...]
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