Youngest son and I made soul cakes today, to take to the World History Grab Bag class that I teach on Mondays with our local homeschool group. We’ll be discussing the history and traditions of Halloween, so it seemed like a great time to get into the kitchen and try out a new (to us) Read More
Month: October 2016
Changing Course
I thought I had our homeschooling plans loosely worked out for this year. But two months in, I’m tossing the plans aside and changing course. When my oldest son was younger it took me a while to figure out how he liked to learn and what worked best for us. We tried a lot of Read More
Take A Hike!
This post originally ran on the Atlanta Homeschool blog, Fall 2015. Five Great Fall Hikes in Atlanta and Beyond Fall in Atlanta is beautiful. The trees are bursting with color, the oppressive heat of summer is gone, and the pollen count is lower than what we find in spring. To me, this makes fall the Read More
Product Review: Age of Mythology the Board Game
My boys and I spent last Sunday playing a three hour game of Age of Mythology. We’ve had this board game for years — since the oldest was about 8 years old (he’s now 19) — but it had been years since we’d played it, and our youngest (the 7 year old) had never joined Read More