By Heather Sanders. Yesterday was our homeschool “clean sweep” day. Some families prefer to declutter as summer is coming to a close, but I find that bringing order to our homeschool spac...
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By Kristen Chase. It’s widely known around my small circle on the Internet that I’m a fan of Canadian Ryans. Well, two in particular: Ryan Reynolds and Ryan Gosling. So you probably are n...
By Heather Sanders. Summer is finally here and though our calendar is not empty by any stretch of the imagination, it is a relief to say it is significantly less jam-packed. The kids have several act...
By Kristen Chase. As this school comes to an end, I’m looking forward to next year with great anticipation as I will have not one, but now two official homeschool students as my son officially ...
By Emelie Sanders. In Markus Zusak’s “I Am The Messenger”, Ed Kennedy is an underage cabdriver wasting his stagnant life away night by night, playing cards, but always losing. Ed is...
By Kristen Chase. If your Facebook feed is like mine, it’s overrun by quotes. So is my Twitter feed. And I admit that I’m generally not a fan of them, because in a way, I feel as though t...
By Heather Sanders. Initially I thought I would title this post “Gettin’ Our Read On”, but then I flash-backed to 6th grade English with Mrs. Thompson. She would have frowned on a t...
By Heather Sanders. Back in March, after reading a review on Kiwi Crate, a company that packages and ships “crates” full of materials for kids crafts and activities, I contacted the compa...
By Kristen Chase. Having a kid that’s old enough to do actual housework sort of sneaked up on me. I’ve had at least one kid in diapers for the last eight years, which means, among other t...
The Community Homeschool Tips category is a venue for the readers here at Pioneer Woman’s Homeschooling blog to share the helpful hints and tips they have discovered in their homeschooling jour...
By Heather Sanders. While I readily admit I have anticipated the end of this home school year and am rarin’ to jump into summer (the pool specifically), because of my involvement in our local h...
By Heather Sanders. In one more week Emelie will complete her second full year of American Sign Language (ASL). During her first year, ASL I, Emelie learned approximately 600 signs over the course of...
By Kristen Chase. If your kids are like mine, then they have those few toys that will always keep them busy. And at the end of the day, as the electric barking dogs and battery-operated cars come and...
Preciousness. Let me back up. Throughout March and April, I’ve traveled off-and-on to many different cities on my cookbook tour and have had the most special, incredible time meeting so many ki...
By Heather Sanders. Summer vacation is within reach for our home school and I find myself longing for it with as much fervor as the kids. At the start of this week, when I pulled the previous week...
By Kristen Chase. Last week, I was invited by GoPro to experience a once in a lifetime opportunity: a trip to Alaska to see the Aurora Borealis (aka The Northern Lights). While I wasn’t able to...
By Heather Sanders. At 5:00 am on Saturday, April 14th, Jeff, the kids, Emelie’s friend Levi, and I loaded into the Suburban for the hour-and-a-half drive to Brenham, Texas. The 5k at the Blue ...
Originally posted in 2010. Updated for 2012. I feel it is my global, grammatical, and terminological (huh?) duty to share this site once a year. I still love it. If you need to rattle the vocabulary ...
By Heather Sanders. Last year Emelie received a pair of URBANEARS headphones for her birthday. Since then they have become a semi-permanent attachment to her head when studying. Emelie purports that ...
By Heather Sanders. There are moments in life that are as vivid as if they happened just yesterday. One of those moments was the Monday morning following the Spring Break of my third grade year. For ...
By Kristen Chase. For April Fool’s Day, I decided that it might be fun to do a little eyebombing with the kids. Have you heard about this? It’s a hilarious game where people put googly ey...
Note: I post this reminder at least once a year to remind homeschooling parents of the myriad benefits of this cathartic exercise. But it’s a helpful skill for any parent. This is the 2012 edit...
By Heather Sanders. With publishers, booksellers, literary organizations, libraries, schools and poets preparing to celebrate National Poetry Month in April, I am excited to introduce author and illu...
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