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“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” — Albert Einstein Encouraging words for today’s cold nature walk where we collected more goodies for our October Nature Table. If you’re wondering what a nature table is all about, let me tell you. It’s a simple monthly activity we do to visualize the […]

On today’s nature walk, we explored the forest floor. We found dirt, rocks, pine needles, various leaves, ferns, nuts, sticks, some mushrooms, and more. Since we’re studying ferns during Nature Study this month, we took some time to draw a fern in our nature journals while we were out. As soon as we got home, […]

In my last post on homeschooling, I explained how we’re spending part of our Winter Break doing some focused holiday unit studies with a bit of unschooling mixed into the mix. I talked about how I put a unit study together, and I shared our Halloween holiday unit study schedule as well.  Today, I thought I’d […]

At this point in the year, we’re usually knee-deep into the first term of our homeschool schedule, but this year, I decided to take a different approach and switch up our schedule to follow seasonal rhythms and changes. One way we’re doing this during the winter months is by implementing holiday studies. For the past […]

You guys. I have a love-hate relationship with homeschooling. Don’t get me wrong… I know it’s the right choice for us, and it’s something I definitely want to do with my kids. I’ve seen so much good come of it, I love watching them learn, and I like that I have control over the what […]

I can’t believe it’s aready time for another Things I Love post! February is almost over, and March is just around the corner. I don’t know about you, but although I always look forward to winter, I ALWAYS look forward to spring. Warmer days, flowers blooming, birds chirping, playing outside… I can’t wait! Anyway, I’m […]