It’s hard to believe that July has come and gone! Life got busy during the month of July as I started working full-time again after being a stay at home mom for almost 6 years. I have enjoyed the extra income into the house and …
We are getting excited because we are headed on our first of many fall field trips with the local homeschool group! Tomorrow we are headed to Maple View Farms in Hillsborough, NC and we are excited about that one! This is the same farm that …
Well I know that must be a shocker for most of you. But we gave it a shot and I won’t talk bad about the school she was going to but it just wasn’t for her and us. We were already having issues with the school and it just wasn’t a good fit. So we have decided to stick with homeschooling until Olivia graduates school. She is actually excited about it. We are doing Abeka Academy this year and not the accredited one because we didn’t want her to feel rushed at all. I’m glad that we have decided to do this as well.
So as you can tell her curriculum will be Abeka but in handwriting she will be continuing to do Handwriting without Tears Cursive Writing! No big deal here! We decided to take her books that she had gotten from the private school and consign them at the local homeschool store. We then in return purchased the whole kit from Abeka Academy and were able to make payments on the kit and the tuition as well so that works for us instead of having to come out of pocket for everything up front like we did with the private school. And we still didn’t have the teachers manuals and the test keys and what not. So this is a better deal in our opinion. Next year we may just do the same thing! We also chose to do the DVD Video lessons as well which will be wonderful for Olivia in case I need to take a break or something.
We will be receiving the rest of her books on Thursday and will begin school on Monday the 11th. Olivia has had a good week to get things together and she is looking forward though to beginning school again. Even if it is at home. We already have a field trip planned out with a few other local homeschooling families to a local farm for Homeschool Day. Can’t wait for that to roll around! Yay! We shall have a good time for that! Have you already started school? Or when are you beginning classes for your homeschool?
Today we received our package from ChristianBook.com and we love how fast Olivia’s new books came! We have been wanting to get her a new math program lately and she is officially on grade level which is wonderful for her. She has been working so …
We started school a few weeks ago but then got the horrible news that we had a death in the family. It was hard for us all to get motivated to start back up so I waited until yesterday to get back to school! So …
I also love the other things that they have other things in this planner that makes it all worth having which other planners that I have gotten didn’t have. I love how it has yearly goals in the back for each child. Of course I only have one child but when the time comes to adopt and we homeschool that one then we will get to that point and we can homeschool more than one. This planner will be perfect for anyone who has more than one child. Also I love how it has an Attendance Chart in the back for each child. This is so much easier to keep up with the amount of days we do. So we need to do the 180 days each year and this is such an easier way to keep up with it. Plus we love to homeschool because we can homeschool on the weekends compared to public and private schools. Plus even when we go on Field Trips they are still considered school days for us because we are learning.
They Hey Mama! Print Schoolhouse Planner has a spot in the back of the book where you can put for each child, Books Read This Year. This will come in handy for us since we plan on using books as part of Olivia’s literature. This is something that will be wonderful for her and for me to keep up and a record of the books that we read and she reads as well. Plus this planner has a curriculum planning sheet which is pretty cool since I have never seen one before in a planner before. And I love the homeschooling contact list as well. Pretty neat considering that we are going to be doing different activities this coming school year. Plus this planner has many different helpful information as well! I love this planner and I will be using it each school year! Whats something even better? Please check out their Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Google+ pages.
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Today was Olivia’s final day of Occupational Therapy! She has made it through 8 long months of going from not being able to even attempt to try new foods to trying them. She has gone from hating all veggies except for french fries (yes she …
Now that our school year is finished up for the year and Olivia will take her test for the 5th grade on June 7th in Wilson, I have already started gathering her books for next years curriculum. You can never be too prepared to have …
War Room was one of the movies I wanted to see in theaters but we just never got to go see it before it was no longer in the movies. I was quite upset when I found that out but when I found out I was going to be able to review it, I was extremely excited about it. I love all the movies done by the Kendrick Brothers and this movie was no exception as to being an excellent, Christian, Family movie! This movie is about a family and a couple who constantly fight over money, how they raise their daughter and more. It’s something that a lot of us see happen even in our own homes. With Tony being a salesman and his wife, Elizabeth a successful realtor they can’t seem to be happy anymore with each other. Elizabeth goes to put a house on the market and finds a true friend who will help her lead her way through prayer. One thing that had me balling my eyes out was the end result. This movie has helped me realize that no matter what people say or think about your marriage or how you praise Him, it shouldn’t matter because only you know what you are doing right. Having a special place to go pray and read about the Good Word is something that you should often have. I don’t have War Room myself, but I have a special place that I read from the Bible and pray in. We all have our own battles but having a War Room might help in the long run for many of us. Praying with my husband is something that I need to do more often and praying for others who may have fallen is one thing I need to personally work on. Maybe when I get my own home I can get my own War Room!!!
The Kendrick Brothers who wrote and produced this movie also did amazing motivational movies like Facing the Giants, FireProof and Courageous. Fireproof made me realize that I couldn’t fix my last marriage but made me hopeful for finding true love and fighting for it. I know that finding my true love, Jason was the best thing that could have happened for me. It gave me hope in loving life again and I fall in love with him more and more each day!
One thing that we love about learning at home is that we get to do new lessons with Olivia and we can travel anywhere we want to go which is a nice handoff for us. The one subject that Olivia has struggled in since the …