I love being crafty and coming up with fun projects for our Girl Scout Troop to work on each week. Last weekend, I went to the craft stores to pick up a Thanksgiving or fall themed project. Guess what I found? NADA! Nothing! Zip! Zilch! I could purchase anything and everything Christmas themed under the …
Thank you to the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium for hosting my family for an incredible day trip! You can learn a lot from books and educational programming, but sometimes you need to just get out there and experience things first hand. This is why schools host field trips. It’s also why homeschooler tends to …
In another week, we will begin our fourth year of homeschooling. During that time, my older two children have been homeschooled through Commonwealth Charter Academy (CCA), and we have been so very grateful for that resource. However, I now have a four-year-old, and he has been asking to be homeschooled for over a year! Since …
Tomorrow is our first day of school. I feel mostly prepared, but tonight, as I was sitting here trying to get the last minute items organized, I realized I didn’t have a way to organize our supplies. We complete our lessons around a table in the living room/homeschool room, and there are no desks or …
My youngest is now 4 years-old, and that means we start pre-school. While I began collecting items for our homeschool at Just Between Friends last spring, there are some items I have chosen to make myself. Sewing Cards were an easy place to start. Pre-Schoolers Need Sewing Cards While to some, a sewing card may …
