About once a week we will be doing drawings/paintings for our nature journals. I’m really excited about our new nature journals as it’s a great way for the kids to take the lead on what they are learning. Over the summer the boys and I have practiced painting with watercolors and copying illustrations from books…
During the back-to-school season I hear a lot of parents talking about how much money they will spend on their child’s education. From public school parents discussing supply lists, private school parents talking about tuition fees and homeschool parents talking about curriculum cost… educating children can be pricey. We’ve done private school and homeschooling and…
I’m raising my family in the same neighborhood where I grew up, in fact, the same exact house. With all the nostalgia that comes with raising your kids in the same house where you grew nothing draws out the soft summer memories like taking my kids to our community pool. I spent many hours at…
For the past several years Shop Local Raleigh has teamed up with local bookstore, Quail Ridge Books to coordinate a great summer activity of a local Where’s Waldo?. This past July we decided to join the Where’s Waldo fun and ventured around town searching for Waldo at local businesses. The boys had a blast searching…
My kids are really into technology. It sucks them in and stimulates their little brains. I love technology, it’s an important part of our culture. Kids learn so much just with the touch of a screen. But it’s also important for kids to be active and engage in physical play. So every day we make…
We finally set up a “homeschool room”. Well it’s really part homeschool, part playroom but the majority of the space is centered around learning. So we’ll call it our homeschool room. The formal living room in our house is sort of unused space for us. Initially when we moved it it was a play room…
We received the new LeapStart from Leapfrog a few weeks ago. The boys have loved playing with the new interactive learning system. The LeapStart helps building key skills and challenge kids to get ready for their next step in learning. The system works with a library of replayable activity books with variety of content for…
Over the long holiday weekend we stopped for lunch at Zoe’s Kitchen. While we were there I grabbed a gallon of their homemade limeade to take home. My kids love Zoe’s Kitchen limeade. I thought I would make a super easy treat with the kids for our Fourth of July cookout. We made limeade popsicles….