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A Good App is Hard to Find
By Kristen Chase. Since so many of you asked for app recommendations in my post last week about how our family uses the iPad, I thought that I would follow up that post and share some of our favorite...
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Book Review: DINOSAUR!
By Heather Sanders. My nine-year-old Kenny moves through areas of interest sloooooowly and methodically. In the past three years he has transitioned from the rainforest and insects, on to dinosaurs,...
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Homeschool Co-op Spotlight: The Mable House Arts Center
By Kristen Chase. With school starting in a matter of weeks down here in Atlanta, I thought I’d take this opportunity to spotlight our family’s homeschool cooperative, The Mable House Arts Center, a...
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DiscoverLit Kit Review
By Heather Sanders. I like educational children’s kits. When my kids were younger–I’m thinking particularly about when my oldest, Emelie, was in Pre-K, I would comb the shelves in the children’s...
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Animal Cell Cake!
The kids go to homeschool co-ops once a week, and my older daughter’s group was recently given the assignment to create an edible animal cell. So she schemed, sent me to the grocery store for a few...
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Images to Inspire
By Heather Sanders. At the start of each new year I take time to update and clean out my browser’s bookmarked web pages. It almost seems counterproductive for me to bookmark anything since I rarely, if...
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Bones: Skeletons and How They Work
By Heather Sanders. Back in October, I wrote about how Emelie and Kenny decided to line draw and watercolor human organs. Reading through the comments on that particular post, I ended up clicking...
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How NOT to create your own model of blood.
By Heather Sanders. For every 8 or 10 creatively inspired or textbook-driven projects that come together beautifully, there is at least 1 that is embarrassingly pathetic. Last week’s “Model of Blood”...
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Why is Milk White?
By Heather Sanders. Why is Milk White?: & 200 Other Curious Chemistry Questions is based on the queries of an 11-year-old author Alexa Coelho, and answers from her neighbor, chemist and author,...
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How to See Your Pulse
By Heather Sanders. Last week Kenny, Olivia and I completed our last anatomy and physiology lessons on the cardiovascular system. One of the last readings of the chapter was on “Vascular Vehicles” –...
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Making Connections
By Heather Sanders. Kenny’s Human Anatomy course continues to be a topic of discussion around the house. He is primarily an auditory learner which, among many other things, means he enjoys and learns...
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Crazy Bubbles
By Heather L. Sanders. For years there have been few things that Kenny enjoys as consistently as building with LEGOS – whether individually purchased sets or his own independent creations. So, when...
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Overwhelmed Selecting 6th & 8th Grade Curriculum.
Community Question is a category inspired by you. Here and there readers write in with questions that are better served by the varied, experiential knowledge of those who read and contribute in the...
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Supplement Summer with Surprise Ride & Other Craft Kits
By Heather Sanders When the kids were younger, I made it a point to keep a wide variety of art supplies stocked throughout the year. We never ran out of the basics, like crayons, markers, map pencils,...
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Virtual Eye Dissection
By Heather Sanders Finding stimulating ways to toggle kids’ interests during the school year can keep educators on their toes, but avoiding brain drain during the Summer months can often take a...
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This may or may not be our 2013-2014 academic plan.
By Heather Sanders This week I received an email from Pioneer Woman reader, Pat in Indy, asking me whether I managed to incorporate genealogy into our 2012-2013 curriculum, and any updates for how I...
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Are Labs an Integral Part of Learning Science?
By Heather Sanders Every Sunday evening we load our homeschool lockers with everything we need for our Monday homeschool cooperative; including, but certainly not limited to, gathering the necessary...
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Hey! I Used to Know That!
By Heather Sanders Am I the only one who finds herself regularly saying, “Hey! I used to know that! What is wrong with me?”, throughout each day of learning alongside my kids? There is, quite...
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The Amazing Race from the Eyes of an Educator
By Heather Sanders This time last year I wrote about our Tuesday evening TV night wherein we watch DVR’ed episodes of three of our favorite shows, The Amazing Race, White Collar and Shark Tank. I went...
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Cloud Cake Project and FREE Cloud Types Downloads
By Heather Sanders Earlier this year in one of the modules for her Physical Science curriculum, Meredith studied factors that affect the earth’s weather. As is often the case, she became the teacher...
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