Our back to school motto? Always Seek Knowledge School started yesterday. I have two big 7th graders. One is off to public school and with the other I am starting our second year of homeschooling. Last year, since it was our first year, we started things off by picking a school name (we call our school G Academy). Then we picked our mascot (a giraffe). And we thought of lots of 'G' … [Read more...]
Texas History Roadtrip
And we're back! The kids and I have spent the last week road tripping with my Mom through Texas. The twins will be in 7th grade this fall and studying Texas History. What what better to do this summer than take a road trip to see some of the places they will be learning about? We started our trip in Austin. There we visited the Texas Memorial Museum and the Blanton Museum of Art. Both are … [Read more...]
Homeschool Update – Viking Bread Recipe
I haven't written much about homeschooling lately, but it's still going really well. We've been doing something pretty fun for our history lessons, recently. A friend of mine told me about Minecraft Homeschool. All of my boys are obsessed with Minecraft and I thought it could be a fun way to combine history with their favorite game. I was right. We have done a class covering medieval times … [Read more...]
Making lunch time fun
Thank you to Fruit Shoot for sponsoring today's post and making lunch time fun All too often lunch is a rushed event at our house. This week we made a plan to make lunch a little more fun! Littlest absolutely adored this compartment style lunch. Tomatoes, celery sticks (with ranch dressing to dip them in, cheese cubes, orange slices, pretzels, and crackers. And to drink? Fruit … [Read more...]
costumes and storms
Oldest Twin and Youngest Twin on Halloween last week. They went as Star Trek characters (Spock and Captain Kirk). Littlest Brother was a very happy M&M. (I made this for the twins. And Littlest Brother wore it two years ago also.)Home schooling is going really well for Oldest Twin. We are studying the solar system and spent the other day talking about Jupiter. We did a fun experiment … [Read more...]