I feel like I’m starting to get my bearings with homeschooling and finding what works for us. We are slowly transitioning from the preschool years with Emily into official school years. For us this looks like growing into Charlotte Mason’s concept of a generous feast and establishing it as part of our family culture. On…
Preschool
Reading with the Good and the Beautiful
Emily’s favorite thing as a toddler was letters. By 18 months she knew them like other kids know princess names and cars. She loves writing words and can sound them out waaaay better than I can. When she turned three she was probably at the point of being able to figure out how to read…
Modeling Clay Ideas For Kids
This post contains affiliate links – all thoughts and opinions my own. When I was a young teenager I got really into modeling clay. I spent hours and hours making little people and collected tools and quite a collection of colors. Emily saw the box in my closet and asked about it one day. At first…
March and April Preschool: Work, Money, and Entrepreneurship
These last two months of preschool were some of my favorites. We introduced the concept of work to the kids at the beginning of April. They read books about people at work, played BusyTown, and talked about what their dad’s did for work. The next week we went to Fresh Thyme, a local grocery store,…