

), and since then we have been enjoying some nature study using the monthly nature grid challenges that get sent out in the newsletter from The Handbook of Nature Study Blog. What is The Arrow? Janice VanCleave’s Science Around the World Just thought I would share the love.

More about this when we’ve had a chance to play with it some more! C and I had so much fun – and learned so much (yes, me too) – this week doing an exercise from Brave Writer’s The Arrow. We piled the books in order of how effective their opening hooks were, with the most powerful at the top. From Soup to Nuts: Featured Weekly Discussions (on hiatus), Connecting with Other Secular Homeschoolers, Advanced Post Thanks / Like v3.3.2 (Lite). I … With the recent loss of our guinea pigs (RIP Oscar and Ollie) and the consequent freeing-up of floor space, I’ve installed a new bookshelf in our living area with slanted shelves for displaying books relating to our studies. Can read and spell at the early reading level, Is ready (or needs) to move to the next reading level, Is still in the learning stages for reading, writing, or spelling. We’ve also been reading aloud Spilling Ink, a light-hearted look at the creative-writing process by two female novelists, which is a fun and nicely aligned with my motto of feeling good around “school subjects”.

Science All my researching seems to be paying off because I’m feeling pretty solid about the choices I’ve narrowed down to so far, and I only have a couple things I still need to make a decision on.
