One of the biggest questions about homeschooling is where to find resources or “what resources do you use” and “how do you plan your day”. So, here’s my answer. Lesson Planning: I use an Excel spreadsheet with drop downs. I have a list on one sheet that is ALL the resources I have – worksheets, [...]

Eion’s been working on writing his letters for a while now, but now that we’re using lined paper we’ve been having a problem with placement of the parts of the letter, ie. writing the lowercase “e” NOT in the bottom half of the space. Now, no, I’m not really worried since, well, he’s 4, but [...]

While we love traditional paper books in this house, we also love e-books. But e-books can be a bit expensive. Unfortunately my library system doesn’t have the option to check out books through the Kindle, etc. like some others do, but I’ve found the next best thing. Pixel of Ink Young Edition Yes, you could [...]

These have been getting a lot of play recently, but I just had to share. That said, we have been doing more of the first recently… But, they’re not officially school age and we’re going to get back in to the run of things soon . They do spend quite a bit of their ‘free [...]

Do-A-Dot worksheets (the worksheets are in the Confessions of a Homeschooler Letter of the Week curriculum) Just a worksheet with places to put dots to make the letters. Like the foam cubes activity, this is something that can incorporate patterning at a later date. Eion’s and Emma’s on the top, mine on the bottom. Whenever [...]

More of our new activities. Foam cubes on the letters – I tried to encourage Eion to do the blocks in a color pattern, but he wasn’t having it today, lol. Emma didn’t finish hers, but that’s 100% okay. It’s more that she wants to do whatever Eion is doing so I gave her one [...]

Phonics blocks – from, you guessed it, CoaH Roll the blocks, see what word we can come up with. I watched as he rolled them and if there were not any words available with the combination he already had, he re-rolled the block. I , of course, helped him find words. In the future this [...]

I’ve been looking at these tools for a while but hadn’t gotten them. Changed that yesterday, lol. Learning Palette Turns out that this is from a local company right here in Layton, UT, but their products are available all over the country. It’s another in a long line of self-correcting type tools. This is the [...]

I like this activity. It keeps them occupied for quite a while if I put all the beads out, and they both like it. Mini muffin tin was $6 at WinCo, the bag of pony beads was probably a couple bucks at WalMart or Joann’s or Michael’s. Can’t remember where I got it. We originally [...]

As mentioned before, this is not my idea. It’s Sue Patrick’s Workbox System, but this is how I’m using it based on what I read at Workbox System – Confessions of a Homeschooler as I haven’t had a chance to get Sue’s e-book yet. So: This is the cart. We actually have two, but only [...]