Two recent projects: Nesting materials for the birds, and facts about Vikings

Two of our recent homeschooling projects included making a “feeder” of nesting materials for our birds, and making a poster about Vikings.

Our curriculum-fair splurge: One big timeline of history

We don’t really “do” curriculum, but we made one big splurge at a local used-curriculum fair – a gigantic timeline of history.

A multi-hour monopoly game and a hike around a former golf course turned park near our home made for a perfect spring day.

We spent hours and hours researching the Titanic just before the 100th anniversary of its 1912 wreck.

March 24, 2012, was our daughter Ashar’s 12th birthday. We celebrated with cookie cake and visit to a local lake!

A 1920 geography textbook led to an amazing project for Ashar and Chris, involving analysis from Native Americans to the Amish.

Spelling practice? The only “spelling list” in our house is our grocery list, but that works well!

Chris and Ashar made chocolate-chip-mint cookies for a 4-H meeting and talked about baking and volcanoes.

Giving Ashar the freedom to make decisions is a big part of our homeschooling experience.

In her quest to bring a winter white hamster home from the pet store, Ashar made a list of all the supplies she’d need and (gasp) did some math.