New Bee Homeschooler

This week was a little busier for us as we try to get back into the swing of things. It was busier partly because I have now switched back to following the public school schedule of starting school in August.  It has been a longgg time since I followed it. For the last four or five years, I have started my school year in January and really liked it because I have a break from workshops during the winter. It was just natural for our family to start a new year and new scho...

We have slowly been gearing up our homeschool routine to a more full day. We slow down during summer but don't completely stop. We normally do math and reading and everything else is a toss up if we get to it. This week we will start up with a more full load.

We briefly covered the French and Indian war and I have been trying to add resources to our French and Indian War time period. After looking and looking there are just not many free printables....

 Studying about history is contagious. I am not going to try to talk you into spending more time studying history because then I would have to tell you why to study history and that is so boring {snore}. Besides, you are probably an educator of some type and already know we should be studying history.

Instead, I want to share why we are passionate about history from the way I feel about the book The World of Columbus and Sons and how we used it in studying...

(one of the covers of my timeline notebook I am working on)

Hi ya'll,

Just a heads up real quick - I was contacted by Jim Erskine at

My Freebies from the last few days - anybody else get the Free Art DVD..... I got in my new posters about Trees and have been enjoying my free subscription to Martha Stewart Living. How did ya'll do? Considering I don't always have a lot of time to ...