A Simple Hand Sewing Project for your Homeschool Read Alouds or Lessons Handcrafts have been a larg… Hello There! Welcome to The Beauty of Play. This post is for my subscription members. I currently have two subscriptions: One for all things homeschooling and another for all things math. You can learn more about them  at…

My Favorite Way to Play with Grammar and Language in our Homeschooling I just want to say that I am silly-excited about making this game for you. I hope that if you don’t play with anything else I send you, you will play with this. I started this game with my daughter early on in…

My Process when Composing a Waldorf-style History Block – hint, we use a lot of Charlotte Mason tools. I knew from the beginning that I wanted the experience of learning history to be different than that of my own. However, as we delved deeper into history, I could see aspects of my history staring back…

Little Actions that Carry us in Connection in our Homeschooling “I want my homeschooling to feel like yours looks.” This was a comment that I received when I had posted a picture of us homeschooling. What most people don’t understand about homeschooling is that it truly different than school. There are many whose style of…

And an inside Look into my Previous Planners I’ve just finished my planning pages for 2026-27 school year, and printed out the ones that I need for my planner. This years are similar to the ones from last year. No meaningful changes with the exception that I’ve made a sheet of “stickers” of graphics that…

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…

How to Establish a Rhythm and Schedule for our Homeschool This week we are talking about rhythm and schedule for our homeschooling. Many people coming to me aren’t sure how to implement a rhythm in their homeschooling. I find that having a habit of a rhythm with some ‘rituals of connection’ to signal transitions in…

A Wonderful Way to Brighten your Waldor-ish Homeschool Space There is something about window star transparencies that bring me such joy. One of the moments of peace for me when walking through my house in the early morning is seeing the rays of sun shining through the colorful stars in our dining area windows. We…

Looking Back at our Eighth Grade of Homeschooling We had our annual evaluation at the end of October this year. When I submitted our letter of intention to homeschool to our county school board as we do in Florida, I intentionally set a day out into October to give myself a buffer of time. The…

A Walkthrough of our Homeschool Schedule Now and in the Past Our schedule has changed over the course of the years and as my children grow. When they were younger, we schooled together more, almost exclusively, but our overall time schooling was less. As they have become older, there is more independent work and less…

Looking Back at All That Was Accomplished This year was my daughter’s seventh grade year and my son’s first official year of community college. I say first official year because he did dual enrollment for a few years in high school, and so this was the first year that he went to classes on campus…

What Different Tools of Learning Look Like within our Homeschooling When I first started homeschooling some 15 or so years ago, I was starting from scratch. I didn’t have a teaching degree or any other teaching experience. Thankfully, I had some great mentors of parents who were several years ahead of me, and there were…