Sometimes in choosing homeschool activities, I find myself over-complicating things.  I am totally guilty of looking at activities on Pinterest, saving them thinking they look awesome, and then getting to the day we are supposed to do them and feeling overwhelmed with the amount of preparation that needs to go into them.  This is not one of those. Here's how the addition game works: Roll 2 dice and add them together (write out the problem). If the answer is higher than 6, circle it. … [Read more...]

I'm linking up to Simple Homeschool today to share a day in the life of our homeschool.  For those who are new here, welcome!  My husband Jesse is a pastor, and he sometimes works from home, sometimes spends time at church, and sometimes is out doing other things.  If he is home, he usually works in the living room (or up in our bedroom if the kids are too noisy). We have four kids: Jonah is 6, Matthew is 4, Hannah is 2, and Elizabeth is 1. 5:30-6:30:  The kids wake up.  If we're lucky, it's … [Read more...]

Yesterday was our 100th Day of School for this year!  We celebrated by taking a break from the usual and doing a bunch of 100th Day stuff.  My kids enjoy worksheets and coloring, so we did several of those (listed below). Helpful Resources : 100 Days Dot to Dot Page 100th Day Crown Mystery Letters Hundreds Charts *Missing Numbers Hundreds Chart *If I Had $100...Page *Day 100 Color By Object Page *I couldn't find the exact links I used for a few of them, but I found … [Read more...]

This week for Letter of the Week, Matthew is learning about V.  Since we don't have a specific math curriculum for him, just concepts, we are reviewing some of the concepts he's already learned, but with vehicles. He measured some vehicles using unifix cubes, he's going to classify vehicles based on where they run (land, air, or water), and he's doing some one to one corresponding and addition and subtraction games with toy cars. Like today.  The prep for this was really easy:  I flattened … [Read more...]