If you’d asked me about my morning basket last year I would have laughed. 😀 That’s not something we do. We are secular homeschoolers. We don’t study Bible verses in the morning. Morning basket? Nope, not for us, thanks anyway. Many varied books. Then I heard the phrase many varied books. It’s a phrase that comes … Continue reading
This year my entire goal, when it came to reading, for our homeschool was to help Hanna reconnect and remember her love for reading. She loved to read when she was little, but as the years in public school went on she lost the love, and in fact, claimed an outright hatred for reading. GAH! … Continue reading
My daughter LOVES to cook. She loves to cook more than most things. 🙂 This has been a problem for a while now, because we are going through a kitchen renovation, and our “kitchen” has been out of commission. However, we are a family of go-getters, make it happen, overcome obstacles, type people, and we’ve … Continue reading
This is my first summer as an actual homeschooler. Last year, it was all the planning to BE  a homeschooler. I was planning like crazy. Turns out, only one thing I planned worked. That was Science. 🙂 The perspective is interesting on this side of the first year. It’s kind of interesting impossible trying to … Continue reading
We went to see Hidden Figures on opening day. That movie led to one of our best homeschooling months yet. We did tons of learning about things from the movie. I thought if we could do that with Hidden Figures, we could do it with other movies too! I went to one of my favorite … Continue reading
Times Tales is on sale now through April 9th for a fantastic price of $13.56. I’ve never seen it priced so low, so I thought I’d share our story of using Times Tales. It was over a year ago, when my kiddo was still in public school. Click the image below to purchase immediately. (You … Continue reading
Before we started homeschooling my mom gifted Hanna a microscope one year. As I was researching homeschooling, and putting together all the curriculum we were going to use I found this awesome unit study for the microscope. My kiddo LOVES the microscope. I thought we’d be golden. <3 HA. Not so much. The first day of … Continue reading
My kiddo is all about the Youtube challenges these days. She’s having a blast recreating all the challenges she can find. She is quickly adding videos to her Youtube channel. One of her latest videos was about the Bottle Flip Challenge. It goes a little like this. Grab a few water bottles, fill them up … Continue reading
We went to see Hidden Figures on opening day. It was my mom’s idea. She was sooooo excited about this movie. As a spark schooler my big job is to introduce my kiddo to as many new things as I can, in an effort to spark an interest. This movie seemed like an awesome spark. … Continue reading
I'm Jackie Lee. A secular, relaxed, eclectic, homeschooling mom of one. I love exclamation marks! emoticons and say LOL way too much. I believe in learning. My kiddo went to public school through grade 4. I brought her home because she'd lost the love of learning, and I believe THAT is the biggest asset one can have in life. We made it through our first year of homeschool together, had our ups and downs, and continue learning and loving the process. I'm sharing our story, as well as the things that work and don't work for us on this blog. :) Read our whole story here.
