Fun with Shakespeare for Kids and Teens

It’s been a long process, but it’s finished. Our next e-book is completed! If you’ve wondered how you can bring Shakespeare plays into your homeschool, we’ve got the solution! Having Fun with Shakespeare for Kids and Teens! This book has everything you need from book title suggestions, copywork pages with famous quotes, notebooking pages for narration, dictation, [...]

Heart of the Matter Online Not Back to School Blog Hop – A Day in the Life

Here is the last installment for being part of the Heart of the Matter Online Blog Hop series. I will try to portray a typical Day in the Life in our homeschool. Each day varies according the subjects for that day or the afternoon activities, but this will give a general day of how we [...]

Learning about Charlotte Mason

For those of you considering using Charlotte Mason’s methods in your homeschool, you might be interested in reading this short biography of her life and her intent in developing her methods. I found it written in a different slant than others I have read before and enjoyed it very much. Perhaps you will too. It is [...]

Love Using Notebooking Pages?

Calling all those notebooking mavens out there! Notebooking Pages.com is now moving all of their notebooking pages to a new membership site, where you can join and have access to ALL of her notebooking pages – including all updates and newly published pages during your membership! This site goes into full swing for Labor Day. [...]

Our Student Pictures Not Back to School Blog Hop

Instead of regular school pictures for the year, which we haven’t taken yet – we do that the first day back to school for us – I decided to share pictures of my kids depicting what our homeschool can look like. My younger son is in the process of writing his own novel, similar in [...]

Mom’s Home Journal – Getting and Staying Organized for the School Year

It’s that time of year when “organization” is a goal and the main focus as we start a new school year. Many of you are familiar with notebooking pages from notebookingpages.com and the great formats and artwork that goes along with them. Last month, they introduced some wonderful home planning forms that not only help [...]

Our School Room Not Back to School Blog Hop

We are a bit late posting about our school room for the Heart of the Matter Online Not Back to School Blog Hop due to technical difficulties that I hope I will have resolved soon. Anyway, here are some pictures and descriptions of how we do “school” in our home. Unfortunately, we do not have [...]

Our Curriculum Selections for this Year

  This is my first installment for the Heart of the Matter Online Not Back to School Blog Hop. I’d like to share what we are doing this year for curriculum, which will be quite different this year due to having a son entering his first year in high school. First, let’s look at my [...]