Celebrating Canada – Lapbooking the Provinces of Canada {Free Printable!}
Canada Day is one of our family's favourite holidays! We usually celebrate by dressing the part and taking in our local festivities. We attend our community's pancake breakfast, parade, and fireworks.This year we are having some extra fun by adding some Canada themed...
Our Relaxed Classical Curriculum – Including Next Year’s Picks!
It's that time of year again when many homeschoolers are wrapping up their year. Finishing some subjects early (way to go you homeschooling superstars!) and trying to plough through where you may have fallen behind. It's a great time for evaluating the year; what...
Getting Started (Again) With Nature Notebooks
I made a delightful discovery a week or so ago while riffling through some boxes in the basement - a tote bag stocked with three pretty notebooks and several pencils. These notebooks were our nature journals from two years ago! I have some sweet memories of walking...
Drawing With (My) Children: Lesson 3
My oldest daughter has been drawing quite passionately since our last lesson - she will sit at the table for an hour or more at a time with her sketch book and work away on her pictures. One day last week I invited her to join me with our books and a pile of...
Learning Mama’s “Day in the Life of a Homeschooler”
Here's a "normal" day in the life of this homeschooling mama of three girls aged 9 months-7years. I've been calling my homeschooling style "Classically Eclectic Slacker" or something like that. It's 6:40 am and Baby Girl wakes up. She was up at 2:00 am and...
Ditching What Doesn’t Work and Finding What Does
When we began our first-grade spelling lessons last year, it took me a little while to figure out that what we were doing wasn't working for my daughter. Did she protest when I brought out her spelling book? No. Did she drag her heels and take forever to complete her...
