Feed

.wp-block-image img {max-width: 100%;} img {height: auto;} Day 2: Annual Sale & Giveaways! is a post from Confessions of a Homeschooler. If you’ve enjoyed this post, be sure to follow Erica on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest! Also be sure to stop by her Community to join the discussion or her Store to see her latest items! Welcome to Day 2 of my annual Homeschool Curriculum & Quilt Pattern Sale!! Everything in the store is 30% off, and if you purchase two or more qualifying items you’ll get up to 40% OFF! This sale only happens once a year, so don’t...

Once a year, our hiking club goes to Clingmans Dome at night, in May. The leader chooses a day with a full moon. This year, it just so happened there was also a lunar eclipse. We arrived at 8:10pm and stayed until about 11:30pm, when the clouds eclipsed the eclipse. Full moon at Clingmans Dome As we left the higher altitudes and got back into Gatlinburg, the moon became visible. No clouds covered the event anymore. Thus, we were able to see the most exciting part of the eclipse as we drove back home. I did not take any pictures...

I love using living books in our homeschool. If you’ve been around here any time at all, you know that living literature is a key tool that I use across all ages and all subjects. Using literature to teach high school history works especially well. There are so many nuances of an event or era that can be understood through books. Living books also have a unique way of drawing students in and placing them smack-dab in the middle of a time period to meet important people, experience meaningful events, and feel real emotions. Just talking about all the benefits...

.wp-block-image img {max-width: 100%;} img {height: auto;} Day 1: Annual Sale & Giveaways! is a post from Confessions of a Homeschooler. If you’ve enjoyed this post, be sure to follow Erica on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest! Also be sure to stop by her Community to join the discussion or her Store to see her latest items! Hello friends, it’s time for my annual Homeschool Curriculum & Quilt Pattern Sale!! Everything in the store is 30% off, and if you purchase two or more qualifying items you’ll get up to 40% OFF! This sale only happens once a year, so don’t...

Homeschool Year-End Shortcuts ~ Episode 467 Are you ready for some homeschool year-end shortcuts?  Are you finished with your school assignments or are close to them being done? Well, now is the time to show how much you’ve accomplished this year. Here are some of my best-kept year-end secrets. Listen to this podcast to learn more. Visit Media Angels to find out more about curriculum and summer reading books for your children. Year-end has such a final ring to it, and often I’d cringe thinking about all the work I had to do, paperwork that is to finish off our...