We had a pretty low key week this week. Nothing major to report.  Which makes for a nice week! The kids did their book work, of course. Abby is doing 2 or 3 math lessons a day so she can finish and get extra time off this summer. Extra vacation time is a great motivator….

We started our school year on Monday the 2nd. We started homeschooling in 1991, when our oldest son started kindergarden. This is our 19th year of homeschooling! This year, we have a 4th grader, a 6th grader, a 9th grader, and a 10th grader. The 9th grader finished 8th grade last December, and promptly started…

This week, Hannah and Abby went to their first homeschool girls volleyball practice. They were so sore the next day! They have only played volleyball casually, so this is a new experience for them.  The girls are of all ages from about 9 or 10 to 17. The coach is a homeschool dad and he…

There are so many great homeschool sites on the web, including some awesome blogs. Here are some that I found helpful and interesting this week. You can print out the Dolch Sight Words. I loved Top 10 Reasons Why I Homeschool at Homeschool-Articles.com. You can make oobleck! I remember a few years ago, the kids…

Melissa with her oil painting. 

We worked on our Olympic Lapbooks again this week. Unfortunately, we haven’t finished them yet. We will continue next week with them and with our England Unit Study. Life kept getting in the way of finishing. Life such as taking a child to the doctor for a tick bite, then getting stung in the parking…