homeschool in bloom

Pierce - 5th grade, Aliza - 3rd grade We have officially started our new school year! The weather is blazing hot, the grass is crunchy, and the mosquitoes are on the prowl......

We just recently visited Smoky Mountain National Park for the second time, we are so thankful to live so close to such an amazing park! I have to admit, when we first...

"I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all." Laura Ingalls Wilder Our year spent reading through 'The Little House'...

The neighborhood I grew up in was like most neighborhoods, to the outsider there would appear to be nothing special about where we lived. But, what they couldn't tell from the road,...

"Reading is a passport to countless adventures." Mary Pope Osborne After spending a year adventuring through the country in our imaginations - riding horseback with cowboys, following Sacagawea through the west, and...

Pierce - 4th, Aliza - 2nd Having studied early American history and European history the previous two years, it worked out perfectly to study the late 1800's-1960's this year. It's right where...

So, this is how it all started… We were in the museum under The Gateway Arch. We had just finished a wonderful year of homeschooling, one I think the kids and I...

Pierce - 3rd grade, Aliza - 1st grade Knowing how much we now loved The Peaceful Press, it wasn't hard to decide what to choose the following year. But, I will admit,...

To say we loved our year studying early American history with The Playful Pioneers would be a gross understatement. Pierce was in the 2nd grade, Aliza in Kindergarten, and I knew I...