Week in Review for August 24-28 (First week)

WEEK 1 in reviewWe started our new Homeschool year this August 24th. We took a month off and we needed it! The month off gave me an opportunity to review what I wanted to use for curriculum. To see what we are using, click here.

The boys are doing some subjects together such as Art, Science, and Bible lessons. My sons enjoy learning together and I am glad that they do.

Turtle's week:
My

A day in the Life of Homeschooling with Special Needs

We are participating in a "Not Back to School Blog Hop" sponsored by Darcy at Life with my 3 Boybarians each Monday in August. This week is "a day in the life week." Here is a day in the life of our family homeschool.
We homeschool in the late afternoon and evenings. DH works late night and it works for us. Our mornings are for family time, appointments, or therapy. Mornings are also good for

Website of the week: Stickers and Charts

StickersandCharts.com is this site I found a few weeks ago when I was searching for ideas to make a weather chart for our calendar math area at home. You don't have to print the printables on sticker sheets. I printed mine on plain copy paper, cut them, and glued them to card stock (you can glue them to construction paper too).This site hassports stickers and chartsSmiley stickers and stamp

Meet my Monkeys (my sons)

We are participating in a "Not Back to School Blog Hop" sponsored by Darcy at Life with my 3 Boybarians each Monday in August. This week the Darcy has asked everyone to show off their kids for photo week!
I am the proud mom to two very active boys. They keep me on my toes often and it shows sometimes in our blog. My sons are five years apart. How I would love them to be closer in age but even

FREE Homeschool Online Resources (all ages)

Incredible long list of free homeschool online resources! This is not my list. The credit goes to Melinda at the Well Trained Mind board. She gave permission for people to post elsewhere. Great Resource! Thank you Melinda!

Early Learning:
1. Starfall - Teaches alphabet and early reading skills.
http://www.starfall.com/

2. Brightly Beaming Resources - Letter of the week, sound of the week,

Schooling in a small space

We are participating in a "Not Back to School Blog Hop" sponsored by Darcy at Life with my 3 Boybarians each Monday in August. This week the topic is school rooms. We live in a small space, a 2 bedroom 800 square foot apartment. It is 898 square feet if you count our outdoor patio area. Since we have two small bedrooms, we use our dining room and living area as our homeschool space; however we

My Trash to Treasure Bulletin Board (Seasons Tree)

When you homeschool in small space like us, you have to think of creative ways to use space. This week we have been getting our homeschool space ready for our first day which is August 17th. Some of our purchased curriculum arrived earlier this month and after opening the box we were left with this...packing material.


Rather then throw away the packing material (brown paper) I decided to