Our homeschool room is off of our main living room. It consists of a dining table + chairs, one desk, a bookshelf, and a highly organized craft shelving unit with labeled bins. We didn’t have a designated homeschool room until our oldest daughter was in 2nd grade so I’m super grateful for the space now. […]
Prepping for Kindergarten Guide
* Thanks to Teacher Created Resources, Lipper International, Kumon Publishing, Singapore Math, ABCmouse, the Eric Carle Museum, and Veritas Press for sending us school products to try. Our third daughter will be heading to Kindergarten this fall. With a spring birthday, she’ll likely be on the younger side of her class – but she is […]
Back-To-School: CRAYOLA
When it comes to purchasing school supply basics like crayons, colored pencils, and markers – I always look for the orange box. This is one category where we don’t buy generic because Crayola’s products are just plain better. In fact, we recently tossed all of our non-Crayola crayons because the girls are particular about coloring with […]
Metropolitan Mama’s Back-To-School Guide 2016
A friend texted me this morning: “Good summer?” My reply: “Summer was lovely – not quite ready to give it up. You?” I love the long, lingering days of summer. I like the sunshine and flip flops, the magnificent monsoons and accompanying splashing in the rain, the ice cream cones and crisp salads. Also – […]
Review: My Father’s World, 1st Grade
Our oldest daughter has an early September birthday. I remember thinking what an absolutely perfect month it was to have a baby. Although I had to endure the final trimester in the scorching summer heat, I appreciated that having an early autumn baby meant that we could spend hours on the back porch swing and […]
Fun Family Projects with the Epson Expression XP-850 (Giveaway!)
Having a top-notch printer is absolutely crucial if you (a) have kids, (b) run a home business, (c) enjoy taking pictures, and/or (d) homeschool. Since our family falls in all four of those categories, our printer gets quite the workout. I’d like to introduce you to our printer – the Epson Expression Photo XP-850 Small-in-One […]
Back-to-School Laminating Projects with Fellowes
Homeschooling has officially begun in our house. You may be wondering how we manage to run a home business, a home school, and a home? Get back to me in about a year and I’ll let you know. ;) Our 5-year-old recently painted a duck with her grandma. We decided to make it into a […]
Are we homeschooling yet?
“Are you homeschooling them yet?” We are asked that question often as we travel from state-to-state. At first, I wavered in my answer, “Well, they’re still young (ages 2 & 4). We do some school activities with them…” The real answer though is THIS: We read stacks of books every day – with dramatic voices, […]
