Language Arts Overview
An Overview of our Language Arts through the years of our Homeschooling Journey There is so much contained in language arts that I feel I couldn’t possibly show everything that we do in one post. Instead, today, I’m going to try to give an overview of what language arts looked like as a whole over…
Keeping a Portfolio
A Sampling of our Homeschooling Portfolios through the Years: from Early Elementary through High School A portfolio is a book or journal that contains pieces of a child’s work throughout the year. Not every piece of work needs to be kept. In fact, it can be quite thick if you do keep every piece of…
Putting Together my Planner for the Coming Year
An Inside look into my previous planners from 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade, and a look at our past Middle School/High School planner as I prepare my planner for the coming year. I was putting together my planner for the following year and thought it would be a good time to share with you how…
Math Circles
How the Waldorf Pedagogy uses Circles in their Math Waldorf uses circles throughout their years in math, from an exploration of them in Year 1 with the Quality of Numbers through their elementary years and into the middle and high school years through geometry. This week, I’m sharing with you how they are used through…
A Time-Sequence Graph
When my son was in eighth grade, I compiled several resources to make a “How We Learn/How to Study” course in preparation for High School. It went over thinks like memory recall, reflection, interleaving, and notetaking. One aspect that we spent some time on were graphs and using them for study, understanding, and notetaking. In…
Sophomore Year in Review
Whew! High school has been a whirlwind for us, but homeschooling high school is definitely doable. I just have to mentally prepare myself by realizing that there will be lots of changes through the years. He shifted gears midway through the academic year, which I talk about in the video. We used a variety of…
Making Mushroom Spore Prints
We love to go mushroom hunting. Our mushroom hunts are for spore prints. We do NOT eat our mushrooms. I wish I knew which ‘shrooms were edible and which were not, but alas… Goals! Spore prints are a favorite around here. I do not know how I made it all the way through my college…
“Notice and Wonder” with Cuisenaire Rods for Homeschool Math
Today for math we did one of my favorite activities, though I will admit, it is not always my children’s favorite. My daughter, now 10, build a structure with the Cuisinaire Rods, and then we did a “notice and wonder” activity. The structure that she build for today was a pyramid. I could have guessed…
Planning for High School
You know that feeling you get when you feel like you aren’t doing enough for your kids? The one that causes you to panic and doubt yourself, go look for curriculum, and then over-schedule your homeschooling days? Yeah, me too. Even though I’m a well-seasoned homeschooler that has been at this for over a decade,…
About Me
Hi, I’m Della. I’m passionate about homeschooling, and I want to share it with you.