Category: Language
20
Jan
Old Material…New Material!
by Claire
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I used free printable Pink, Blue, and Green reading series materials from The Helpful Garden with both my girls when they were learning to read....
09
Jan
A Fantastic First Week Back
by Claire
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This week I tried something new. I tried to be more relaxed about when and where we did our work. It’s not easy! I like...
29
Dec
Our Scrabble Hack
by Claire
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We were playing scrabble today and I thought I’d quickly share our little hack. Funball has been playing for a while now, but at 8...
17
Dec
Ancient Egypt – Week 5
by Claire
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This week we dived into pyramids and mummies! We’d already covered a lot of information about mummies though our mythology reading – it’s hard to...
09
Dec
Ancient Egypt – Week 4
by Claire
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Week 4 was all about language and math! We went all in this week. Aside from a fraction multiplication lesson to continue on a theme,...
01
Dec
Egypt Unit Study: The Plan
by Claire
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When I began introducing history, after teaching the Third Great Lesson, we began using Pandia Press’ product, History Quest Early Times (HQET). We got started...
21
Nov
Our Work – 11/20/2020
by Claire
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We’ve had an uninspired few weeks around here. Left goes through seasons, and Funball was in a season of push back, everything was boring, she’d...
15
Oct
Our Work – 10/9/2020
by Claire
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No sooner did I finish writing our Curriculum Choices post that we (of course) made some changes! All summer I’d felt pretty good about what...
13
Sep
Our Work – 9/11/2020
by Claire
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Periodically I’ll be providing snapshots of our work week. Currently the girls are working on follow up work from the First Great Lesson, and biome...
22
Aug
An Hour of Grammar
by Claire
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My 5.5 year old just spent an hour working on adjectives. Incredible, right? Only if you’re picturing a lecture, a workbook, and lots of writing....
