It's time for this year's edition of "What do those homeschoolers do all day anyway?". If you're new around here, we have five kids: Jonah (5th grade), Matthew (4th grade), Hannah (2nd grade), Elizabeth (Kindergarten), and Sarah (3 years old). My husband Jesse is a grad student at Baylor, and I'm the home manager/teacher/writer. This particular day in the life was a Tuesday, and was pretty typical. 6:15am. I wake up. I am the last person awake. That should tell you something about life … [Read more...]

While I was doing my homeschool planning over the summer, I went looking for novel studies for Jonah and Matthew to do. I was looking for something that would combine reading comprehension (did they actually read the chapter and understand what happened), vocabulary, and maybe some other sort of grammar or part-of-speech related question. I didn't really find what I was looking for. What I found were bits and pieces. I found lists of questions to go with chapters in some of the novels … [Read more...]

Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. If you make a purchase through these links, I receive a bit of a commission at no additional charge to you. It's time for another Day in the Life post! For those who are new here, we are a family of seven. My husband Jesse is a graduate student at Baylor University, and we have five kids. Jonah is 10, Matthew is 8, Hannah is 6, Elizabeth is 5, and Sarah is 2. Here's what our Thursday looked like last week... 6:00am. I wake … [Read more...]