Wow. Its January. You mean most people don’t post their new curriculum halfway through the year? Whoops. To tell you the truth our curriculum is so fluid that half the time I don’t know when one year stops and another begins. Finish 3rd grade writing? Move on to 4th. Still haven’t finished up math for…
Travel Dates: Dec. 14 – 18, 2015 We left the beautiful Emerald Coast and made for the area around Tampa, Florida. We had a long, 7 hour driving day, but the kids (and drivers!) did fabulous. Lots of movies, tablet time, audio books, and lunch out made the day seem pretty easy. In the Tampa…
We have had quite a spectacular year! This has been our first year without a sticks & bricks house to call home and it has been liberating. We’ve had so much freedom to roam the country, explore, and spend time together as a family. We couldn’t be happier and hope to keep traveling for the…
Travel Dates: Dec. 3-13, 2015 We visited the Emerald Coast on our way east to west 2 years ago (blog post about that here) at the beginning of our crazy journey. We drove through this area way too fast and swore we’d come back and stay longer. This time we wanted to try a different…
Travel Dates: Nov 23 – Dec 2, 2015 When we announced our plans to head south after our trip to Utah, our friends from the house swap in Virginia mentioned they would be near Atlanta over Thanksgiving. We haven’t seen them in two years, so of course we had to stop by and visit! Our friend’s…
You’re making me miss Florida already and the beautiful weather this time of year! Enjoy it up friends, while we are getting beautiful amounts of snow here in Utah! Thanks for the updates, I try to read every word and dream of the next time when we can wander beyond our home in Lehi as well! 😊ReplyCancel
Your pictures are divine! And it looks like your kids are having the best time 🙂 xx
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I was reading this and was happy to see I am doing all of the same grades that you are! Ha! I have a bit more space for books though 🙂 My boys have used Handwriting without Tears(It has not been totally without them though) since prek and they are nearing the end of the program! They never liked the printing books but they jumped at cursive. Even though my boys are different grades they do the same work. My youngest boy seems ok with that and does not have difficulty keeping up. In fact his handwriting is better than his brothers. Because we started fostercare this year my curriculum list never made it online. Ha! I have 5 kids now and they are teaching me to schedule my time! Thanks for sharing! I loved looking at what you were using.
Foster care, huh? That is awesome!! We’ve often talked about doing that, though obviously not while we are traveling. 🙂 There’s a time and a season for everything so just keep doing good things and your time for travel will come!
Thanks for sharing! This was helpful as I’m looking into homeschool with our upcoming move. I have some questions….. The Spelling Power book…is it just the one teacher manual for both of your kids and then the student books? How do you lesson plan? How do you know that you’re covering everything you need to cover for each child? What other math programs have you seen that you would also be interested in using? How much do you do online? I have been told about Kahn Academy and that it’s free, but it’s all online. Do you avoid online to save your usage? Just a few questions for you!! Oh, and what do you do when they don’t listen to you? Sometimes we have the hardest time getting focused and staying on task to do homework…which isn’t as much as they’re accomplishing at school. I’m drawn to homeschool for being together and not having to run out the door every morning. I’m scared of homeschool because of the unknown…which is what we’re always scared of with new things, right?!