Week in Review: “Rowing” with Jesse Bear

Finally we much delay due to our recent move, we were able to resume our homeschooling two weeks ago towards to end of October.  To celebrate, we rowed our first book this year.  

Our first choice for BFIAR was “Jesse Bear Jesse Bear, what will you wear? by Nancy White Carlstrom. In the book, Jesse Bear is excited about his day as he wakes up, gets dressed,  plays outside, eats, takes a bubble

Week in Review: changes, family, and 80th birthday

Finally we started back homeschooling after several weeks off due to our recent move.We began with a light week. The time off gave us time to spend together as a family and to explore our new neighborhood.  The boys made several new friends close to their ages. They enjoy playing outdoors with the other children and I have meet several parents who welcomed us to the community.

Here are the

Week in Review: the house hunting edition and family

Our second and third week was a very light week of homeschooling. Between searching for a new home, making calls and visiting properties, we managed to only get a few days of school done during the last two weeks.      

Last month (August 22), the boys began working on their “All About Me” book and this month they continued working on them with our Family unit study.  

Here are the highlights

Week in review: Our first week

This Monday we started our first week of school. I’m glad we waited until late August to begin because it gave the boys a few weeks of summer vacation time.  We had a light week with basic subjects and a few electives such as health and science mixed in. 


Each day we are doing Calendar Math. We made a new Calendar and Morning board this year and the boys really like it.  The boys are learning

Week in review: Gardening (weeks 28-29)

Gone are the days of cool Spring weather, summer heat has taken its place.  Still we have managed to use the early morning hours to explore and have fun outdoors.  The boys explored the subject of gardening (as part of their  homeschooling) the past two weeks. 

Note: For those who do not know my sons are nicknamed Godzilla boy, age 11 and Turtle, age 5. My oldest son has some learning

Week in Review: Holy Week (week 27)

This week was spent on learning about the first Easter (Holy week) as we read books on the last days of Jesus.  We have spent time celebrating Advent every December that we feel that is it equally important to recognize God’s love for us that he would sacrifice his only son Jesus to die for our sins.

We began our week by talking about why Easter is more than a holiday.  We talked about Passover

Week in Review: Family fun (week 26)

We have been doing our regular homeschooling studies but focused on our city’s history of FIESTA as part of our unit study.  FIESTA in Spanish means party and people in our city, Fiesta is a tradition rich in the history and culture of our city,   

Here in San Antonio, we have a 10 day celebration known as FIESTA. It started over 100 years ago in 1891 by Ellen Maury Slayden (Mrs. James L.), the

Week in Review: Spring (weeks 24-25)

March 28 to April 8
We spent two weeks on our unit study on Spring.  The previous two weeks (March 14 – 25) we took off for an extended Spring break.   During our studies, we read books about the season of Spring and about animals in Spring as well as Spring activities.  Note: For those who do not know my sons are nicknamed Godzilla boy, age 11 and Turtle, age 5. My oldest son has some learning

Week in Review: All About Birds part two (weeks 22-23)

February 28 to March 12 We continued our unit study on birds. Last week we spent time learning about birds in general and this week we learned more about bird watching (especially backyard birds). We read about specific birds such as the owl, duck, cardinal, heron and hen.

We recently made some changes in our geography studies. In all honestly, we had not been doing much in geography since we

Week In Review: All about Birds (week 21)

February 21 to February 25This Wednesday we began our two week unit study on birds (to coincide with the Great Backyard Bird Count).

We learned what birds are, which birds fly and which do not. We read books about birds and painted with feathers. It was a fun filled week that included our Nature Study on birds in our area.
Note: For those who do not know my sons are nicknamed Godzilla boy, age

Week in Review: Valentines (week 19)

February 14 to February 18We spent a this week doing a Valentine’s Day mini unit. We spent the reminder of the week catching up on the subjects of phonics, reading and math.Note: For those who do not know my sons are nicknamed Godzilla boy, age 11 and Turtle, age 5. My oldest son has some learning disabilities.Turtle began using Melissa and Doug’s jumbo stencil set. We bought ours two years ago

Week in Review: a Snow day to end our week (wk 19)

January 31 to February 5This week we began our study on the Polar Regions: Arctic and Antarctic Animals.

We stayed indoors most of the week due to below freezing weather but no one mined that because the boys were looking forward the to the chance of snow that was in the forecast for Friday morning.

We used Monday to review of the previous week. Last week we did not have a unit study and

A Snow day for my boys

It is no surprise that we rarely see snow. The cartoon of the year without a Santa Claus comes to mind (especially the part about the Miser brothers who control different parts of the countries’ weather). A boy in Somber town wishes for snow and asks Mrs. Claus that if he helps her find the baby reindeer, can she make it snow in his town.Well today we felt like Somber town on a Christmas morning.

Week in Review: Winter and Trees (weeks 16-17)

January 10 to 21We took a longer break than expected but considering that we still did some sort of homeschooling during the holidays, everyone needed the extra time off including myself.On Monday during our first week back, everyone wanted to stay indoors under the covers, but the boys both had dentist appointments. I am so glad we went because we found out that Godzilla boy needs to have oral

Week in Review: Advent and Winter (weeks 14 - 15)

Dec. 6 to Dec. 17thOur weeks of homeschooling have been light this month as we celebrate Advent. We have not had any wintery weather to date but winter has not officially begun, so we’ll see. During the week of December 6th, we read books on Snowman but we also did family readings from our Bible. Our second Sunday of Advent was spent reading books on Advent and making advent crafts and ornaments

Week in Review: Advent and Birthdays (week 13)

Nov. 28th to Dec. 4thThis week we did not do much in terms of homeschooling. We had two birthdays this week after Thanksgiving and began our celebration of Advent. During this month we are homeschooling on a lighter schedule to devote time to spend together as a family.On Sunday November 28, we celebrated our first Sunday of Advent. For hundreds of years, Christians have used an Advent wreath to

Week in Review: Pilgrims, Wampanoag, First Thanksgiving (week 12)

November 15 to November 19
This week, we learned about the Pilgrims and their voyage on the Mayflower, Pilgrim and Wampanoag Indian life, the first Thanksgiving and about Turkeys. It was a fun filled week that was rich in history and culture.

On Monday, we set sail on the Mayflower by reading about about the Pilgrims and their travel to the New World through the book “If you sailed on the

Moving through Mexico

We spent the last two weeks moving through Mexico for our Galloping the globe studies (world geography). We did many crafts, read some wonderful children's books and made some Mexican cuisine.

Here is our two week plan we used of our geography studies on Mexico:
Week 1 Layout
Monday- Use the Atlas and globe to locate the the country of Mexico. Read in our Around the World book some information

Week in Review: Learning about Harvest (week 10)

November 1st to 5th
This week we started a unit on a Harvest theme. We learned about different fruits and vegetables that are harvested in the Autumn season as well as the different types of Harvest celebrations held in different countries.

Did you know?
Harvest festivals take place all over the world, and have for centuries. Click HERE to find out more.

Here are just some the interesting

Week in Review: All about Fall (week 8)

October 18th to 23 This week went into full gear with a tree nature study, a unit on Autumn (Fall), a trip to pick pumpkins. The boys enjoyed a fun week and so did I and we haven’t even painted our pumpkins yet (we decided to paint ours next week during our Pumpkin unit study.
This week we read several books on Fall. Some books we revisited from last Fall because they were the boys’ favorites