Monthly Homeschool Calendars Great for home, school, and personal planning and keeping track of things. I originally made these to give my kids a selection of calendars for writing down their own accomplishments for the day, and they were a big help! I also loved some of the designs so much, I use them…
Children’s Recipe Book – Create Their Own The kitchen has always been my favorite place to put those math skills into practice – between grocery shopping and following recipes, kids really get to show off what they’ve learned. With this adorable recipe book children can write down, create, and make their favorite cooking and…
New Zealand Whites are large stocky white rabbits with an average weight of 9 – 12 pounds. They are very good eating, and they also make excellent pets, they are very calm and sometimes like being around people. The rabbits pictured are our pets called Thumper, Trixie, Whitehouse, and Skinny. Photos and Story by Liora…
Jersey Cows. It is typically light brown in colour, though this can range from being almost grey to dull black. They can also have white patches which may cover much of the animal. A true Jersey will however always have a black nose bordered by an almost white muzzle and long eyelashes. Some facts about…
Bourbon Red turkeys are very handsome, they have brownish to dark red plumage with white flight and tail feathers. Tail feathers have soft red bars crossing them near the end. Neck and breast feathers are chestnut mahogany. The Chocolate Turkey is a very rare breed of poultry with brown feathers,…
The Buff Goose is a lovely apricot-fawn color. The buff colored feathers on its back and sides are edged with creamy white, and they are very good setters and mothers. Embden geese are very calm and docile. Their plumage color is completely white. They are not very smart, but…
Silver Laced Wyandottes are colorful, hardy, and hens are productive layers. Their broad-feathered, smooth fitting silver-white plumage is sharply marked with lustrous greenish black edging. The Silver Spangled Hamburg is one of the most alert breeds of poultry. They are consistent layers, have a bright cheerfulness when foraging,…
Khaki Campbell ducks are tall when they are little and sometimes they are mistaken for Runners, when they grow older drakes sprout green feathers on their heads, females remain brown with extrodinary patterns, and they lay beautiful white eggs. The White Layers are positively exquisite, they grow up to be solid white with yellow legs…
The Night of the Cossack – Homeschool Edition with Study Guide – by Tom Blubaugh The Night of the Cossack by Tom Blubaugh is a captivating historical fiction set in Russia during the early 1900s, a dangerous time and place if you happened to be a Jew. The author’s maternal grandfather, Nathan Hertzfield, happened to…
Occupy Little Ones – And Keep Them Learning I have six kids and we’ve been homeschooling a long time. When I was trying to teach the older ones with toddlers running around, sometimes it was super hard. They didn’t always want to sit and color or practice their letters. Sometimes they needed something a little…
Everything You Need for a Successful School Year Purchase the Full Planner – 300 Pages Get a Free Sample Below! Our homeschool planner is the only planner you’ll ever need – fully customizable to any learn style, multiple students, and grades. You can get a free homeschool planner sample in case you aren’t sure…
Heritage Grove Academy’s Awesome Homeschool Planner Heritage Grove Academy’s Awesome Homeschool Planner It’s filled with record keeping pages, school, forms, curriculum planning & scheduling pages, student worksheets & notebooking pages for many subjects, & blank monthly calendars, along with organizing ideas for your homeschool plan – 300 pages. In our homeschool years we…
Awesome Homeschool Planner & Student Pages Everything You Need for a Successful School Year 300 Pages of Charts, Calendars, Forms, Student Worksheets & Lots More! Our homeschool planner has grown up so much over the years! We started with just a hundred pages over ten years ago, and now it’s grown to over 300 pages…
Are homeschoolers really unsocialized and strange? What makes us so different? Homeschoolers are often painted up in this little box of being weird, different, unsocialized, and strange. I think we should define that. Let’s start by looking at a few definitions. For the sake of argument and not using “outdated definitions” – posted are…
If you’re not having fun and completely enjoying any of your homeschool subjects – you’re doing it wrong! Do you hate teaching math? Then how can you expect your child to learn it, let alone enjoy learning it? If you’re struggling with teaching a certain subject, or you just “don’t want to” then you need…
The Easy Method We Love Keeping our kids’ schoolwork organized hasn’t always been easy for us. With all these digital downloads for homeschool work it got a little harder and I needed to find an easier way to keep things organized. We found something that really works for us. Nothing has ever been lost or…
An excerpt from our Homeschool Planner What’s in the Planner Overview & How We Use It Too Many Homeschool Pages for You to Choose From! What I do first is make notes from our curriculum – or whatever books we’re using and the Year-At-A-Glance Calendars. Then I transfer that information into my individual Subject Objective Pages. …
From Our Homeschool Planner – Excerpt Part Three Homeschool Planner Overview Calendars, Charts, Forms, Letters, Evaluations, Pages & Pages – Oh, My! Throughout my time home educating I’ve gotten and used several different types of planners, forms and charts to use for organizing and record keeping. I always found myself wanting something a little different, either…
Excerpt from our Homeschool Planner Our Home Education Schedule Create a Flexible Schedule to Keep Your Homeschool On Track For us another way to de-stress and thoroughly enjoy our homeschool life again – even with the added children, was that we started to school year-round. At first it was to “make-up” things missed during babies…
An excerpt from our Homeschool Planner Our Home Education Plan Homeschooling is Easy When You Have a Good Plan I had decided when I became pregnant with my first that we were going to homeschool and God convicted me to do so when she was ready for Kindergarten even when the “fear” tried to convince…
Notebooking Pages ~ All Subjects ~ Homeschooling Since we first discovered notebooking pages we have had so much fun making notebooks for our homeschool studies over the years! These awesome pages from Notebooking Pages have been an invaluable asset for every subject and every grade level. Through the use of notebooking pages our kids have been…
Handwriting Copywork – Manuscript Print, D’Nealian Slant, and Cursive We’ve always felt that handwriting is a valuable skill to teach the kids – I don’t buy into any of the talk about the modern world and how some feel it’s unnecessary. Not to be a pessimist, but electronics could all be wiped out tomorrow and…
One of the books we read was Magnus Kir by Christian author Dean Hardy. I personally was unable to put it down – and cannot wait for the rest of the family to read it. I found it captivating and thought provoking as I followed Zack through his adventure. He’s just 12 years old and…
When you’re first getting started with homeschooling it’s easy to be confused – whether you’re pulling your child out of public school or you’re just getting your little ones started. There are a lot of myths about homeschooling because it’s all custom work. No matter how you decide to educate your kids – it’s…