Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 11:03 am I just wanted to share that we have been redoing 1st grade with my 2nd grade daughter. We pulled her out of public school after 1st to homeschool her this year. We decided to redo 1st because we were not sure that she really had her basics down from the public scho...

Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 12:12 pm I just wanted to let you know that I have expierienced the school end of the patience issue. I am not yet homeschooling. We are planning on pulling our daughter out here at spring break if possible or definitely at end of year and then using MFW for her. She goes t...

Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 2:32 pm We are working on week 33 of Adventures and the birthplace of Geronimo is shown in both New Mexico and Arizona. I have looked on the Internet and, depending on the website, it could be either place. I like to skim the information about each state and find images of ...

We did the bark rubbing, but then also did a leaf rubbing with leaves from the same tree and then I had my daughter draw a picture of the tree and we put all of these in her nature notebook. She loved the leaf rubbing because she did it with red, brown, green, orange, and yellow crayons, so it looke...

Our family is another of those night owl families. I work from home and get most of my work done after the kids are in bed. I usually work until midnight on average, so that puts me to bed around 1 am. I then sleep in until about 8 or 9 in the morning. Even times that I try to go to bed earlier to g...