The past week started out with the most beautiful day! We weren't about to waste it so I packed the girls up and headed to a lake near ou...

Wow, am I behind in my posting about school stuff...this is a book we did a while back that never got posted...sorry! Because of the awe...

The first week of August we rowed Angus Lost.  In this story Angus the dog decides he wants to see the world outside the front gate.  He wanders off and meets another dog, a goat, and a car.  As he is trying to find his way home, snow begins to fall and he must spend…

Nate and I have been using Before Five in a Row to "row" a book about every two weeks or so. I work only 15 or so minutes with him individu...

I'm up to my ears in Christmas stuff so this is a quick review of our week rowing Angus Lost by Majorie Flack! Dog Lotto! Thi...

This fall, my “babies” will be entering ninth grade, seventh grade, and fifth grade. I reminisce those Before FIAR days, early on our learning journey. When I heard there was a More Before FIAR manual and booklist, my heart felt a little sad. I wish I was joining you on this journey, but sadly Wendy,…

I just finished our first week of "Rowing".  Conner and I did Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown.  It was a really fun week!  We started by reading the book.  We talked about the different colors in the book and pointed them out.  We then colored a page of balloons all the colors we found…

Little Ladybug enjoyed reading The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss.  We also had fun doing some Before Five and a Row activities to go along wi...

Caps! Caps for sale! Fifty cents a cap! This is one of our favorite books, so we were excited to row it. We always read through the ...

I haven't fallen off the face of the planet, I swear! Instead the month of December has begun, the babe is getting ALL her teeth at once ...

This week we 'rowed' The Little Rabbit by Judy Dunn. This one was extra special to me because I remember it well from when I was a child...

The last few weeks have been very very busy in our household!  We were preparing and then celebrating Daddy's homecoming from an 8 month deployment.  We are so happy to have him home and have been enjoying our family time!  Just a brief overview of our weeks with the book The Runaway Bunny. The book…

This week we rowed Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina. "Subtitled A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business, this absurd and very simple story has become a classic, selling hundreds of thousands of copies since its first publication in 1940. A peddler walks around selling caps from a tall, tottering pile…

A blog about living internationally, travel, and homeschooling in Thailand & Chile.

This week we 'rowed' The ABC Bunny by Wanda Gag. The girls loved this book and it provided lots of different things to learn about and ...

This week we have spent time reading The Yellow Ball by Molly Bang.  This is a very simple book, and I wasn't sure if the kids were going to enjoy it, or if we were going to have enough things to do - but we had a GREAT week and so much fun!  It's amazing…

I home school Ellie, for those who aren't aware; and I love it! But her "Schooling" at this point in her life is anything but structured...

This week we rowed The Red Carpet by Rex Parkin.  This is one of our favorite books yet!  This adventurous rhyming story tells of a red carpet that is rolled out for the Duke.  It rolls out of control and the police are summoned to arrest it!  It outruns the police and makes its way…

My Blue Boat, by Chris L. Demarest, is one of those books that I'm glad I found on amazon!  We only spent two weeks on this one, but could h...

In early July we read My Blue Boat by Chris L. Demarest and had fun learning about whales, boats and lighthouses.  We had a fun week, and then took a family trip to San Diego to check out real whales, boats and lighthouses! From Amazon: "In this simple tale, a child sails from her bathtub…