As the famous Greek philosopher, Aristotle, proclaimed thousands of years ago…“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” But, what exactly is heart education? And how can we strive for it in our homes?

A few of our favorite Valentine books and a little look into how we’ve celebrated Valentine’s the last couple of years.

We’ve been reading lots and changing up our unit study routine. Today I’m highlighting some of the things we’ve been up to the last few weeks.

Some of our favorites for the Christmas season.

We read more in November. The cooler weather and the first snow storms begin to tuck us in for the winter. Today I’m sharing some of our favorite books to read this time of year. But, first I wanted to chat a little bit about home libraries and why collecting seasonal books have become important to us.

We’re shifting gears into ancient world history and here are a few of the materials we’re currently using.

Looking outside our back living room windows, we can see the dusting of red treetops beginning to work their way down the mountainsides. Fall is here and it’s time to pull out some of our favorite books!

The topics covered in this course are must-have and must-review conversations. Here are my honest thoughts about the course.

Are you looking for some new nature study books to add to your home library? These are some of our favorites and why. I also included my wish list…because can one ever have enough nature books???

This is our first unit study of the year. If you’re new around here, I like to dive deeper into one unit at a time and right now we’re doing all things birds!

Short and simple post on our handwriting basket and what’s in it.

4th grade is going to be a great year. Our rhythm will be shifting a bit this year because, for the first time, the girls have a lot more independent work.

I am SO excited to teach Kindergarten. We’ve got some great curriculum lined up this year and I can’t wait to dive in!

I have a bunch of things on hand for pre-school because at this age children are so eager to learn. We love to rotate between a few different resources so here are some of my favorites I am pulling from for 2022-2023.

The materials we’re using for our 2022-2023 devotionals.

A few simple tips on planning out a homeschool year.

We loved our Zoology unit from Elemental Science. At first, I was hesitant to study animals for an extensive amount of time, but my twin girls and pre-schooler soaked it up and I am surprised by how much fun we had.

I’ve always had a Montessori flare to my parenting and teaching style. These are some of the favorite items we use for our home and learning environments

Since our time with My Tech High we’ve been given about $6000 in reimbursement funds for educational materials. In this post I am breaking down some of our favorite things and also organizing them by items that can double up as holiday or birthday gifts.

I wasn’t quite sure the direction I wanted to head this year for Christmas School, but once I sat down and started to look at what we had, it all came together so nicely and we’re really excited for the next few weeks! We will be taking a break from all our other subjects and units and just focusing on all of these areas.