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(5/7 – 5/11) We had fun rowing Truman’s Aunt Farm by Jama Kim Rattigan. This is a fun book! The boys enjoyed it, laughed and asked lots of questions as we read it throughout the wee...
(4/30 – 5/4) We focused our studies this past week on Song of the Water Boatman by Joyce Sidman. This is a book full of well written pond life poems. The poems paint vivid images of...
(4/16 – 4/27) We spent the last two weeks rowing The Salamander Room by Anne Mazer. We had so much fun with this book, our studies that were centered around it, and our time outdoors in n...
After posting our curriculums for the upcoming school year I felt very uneasy about some of my decisions. I decided to pray, ponder and think over the last few weeks to try and come up with a c...
(4/2 – 4/6) We had a very fun and busy week of learning here at home the week of Easter. It also happened to be a week that one little one was getting over being sick and another little o...
(3/26 – 3/30) At Joe’s request we studied Egypt this past week. I think I learned much more than Joe did! It seemed like during the course of our reading when I would speak up in ex...
Hanna is doing so well with her school work. I am very proud of her efforts and the quality of her work this semester. Her grades have been very good, and she and I are having a fun time ...
We went on a field trip to Brookgreen Gardens last weekend and it was lots of fun! The boys and I are going to spend the whole month of April studying life cycles of various plants, insects and...
Hanna is studying US History this school year and the next. Since South Carolina plays a pretty large part in the Civil War era of US History, it’s only fitting that we take some historical fie...
(3/12 – 3/21) We had so much fun rowing Harold and the Purple Crayon! I spread this row out over 7 days instead of 5 so we could take our time and enjoy everything I planned. I’ve a...
(3/5/12 – 3/9/12) We spent some time in South Africa with Honey…Honey…Lion!, by Jan Brett. (Even though this was not a Five in a Row selection I treated it just like one and we ‘rowed’ it...
Hanna has been doing some really neat things in her homeschool lately. I’ve had a lot of fun learning alongside her. Writing is an area that Hanna struggles with learning and I struggle w...
(2/27 – 3/2) We rowed Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey and studied the state of Maine and it’s state animal, the moose week before last. This is a Before Five in a Row selection so...
(2/20 – 2/24) We rowed The Story About Ping and along the way studied China. It was a fun week. The boys really enjoyed Ping. Here is what they commented on/we discussed throu...
January 2-6th We had a very fun time with Corduroy this week. By the end of the week I was actually sad to end our time with this selection. I will always remember our time rowing t...
Hanna got some art supplies for Christmas and has been having fun using them. She painted this picture of Baby O. on a canvas throughout the week. She did such a wonderful job on it. ...
We had one last ornament to make for our Story Book Tree and finished it up the day before Christmas Eve. The kids made gingerbread men out of craft foam, puff paint, glitter glue and beads....
I have been planning our Christmas study plans for a few weeks now. They have come together nicely and I’m very excited about all we hope to do. I came across a link for a book called ‘Th...
(November 14-23) In order to get ready for the Thanksgiving holiday and learn as much as we could about the history behind this holiday we rowed Cranberry Thanksgiving. This was a fun row. ...
(November 7-11) We spent a week reading scarecrow books, making scarecrow crafts, completing a scarecrow Preschool Pack and a First Grade Scarecrow Math and Literacy unit from Teachers P...
Here are some brief highlights of what Hanna and Joe have been up to in school outside of Five in a Row the last few weeks in our core subjects. (These posts are mostly for my documentation....
I enjoy sharing all that we do along our homeschool journey, and I have learned much from homeschool bloggers as well--and continue to. At this time in my life as a homeschool mom, I simply don...
We had so much fun rowing How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World, by Marjorie Priceman. I had the best time planning and preparing for this row and an absolute blast rowing it with the boys...
We rowed our first Five in a Row book this week, Gramma’s Walk by Anna Grossnickle Hines. I chose this book for two reasons—it is about the beach and the beach is one of our very favorite place...
This was Joe’s first official week of 1st grade, and my first time rowing with both Jack and Joe together. We had fun, and Jack didn’t seem to mind sharing me with Joe. I wanted to make t...
Hanna has had a great start to her seventh grade school year. She’s been working away each day in all of her subjects and seems to have eased back into school mode seamlessly. Whew! ...
I’ve wanted a new look for this blog for quite some time. I knew I wanted something clean, simple, happy and bright. I also knew this time around I planned to treat myself to a profession...
We went bear hunting this past week with Before Five in a Row. And, the best part? We actually found one! He had ‘one shiny wet nose, two big furry ears, two big goggly eyes’. ...
I want to remember these sweet cards we sent to the Grandparents this year, so I thought I’d post a picture of them and share the idea for them too. They are super sweet because my Jesse’s swee...
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