It *must* be summer – I’ve been too busy to blog! (Ha.) The curtain is closing on the summer of 2012 (well, not in terms of the weather, but at least in terms of my planning for a new school year). We have a few exciting things coming up – Chris’
(This rambling post may not be very interesting, but I needed to put some of these ideas down so that my brain can stop spinning!) I realized the other day that I started doing preschool work with Jonas when he was two-and-a-half… That means we’ve been at this for four
A new week, a new science “es-perience” (as Susannah calls them). I’ve been aiming for Thursdays, but this week that was a pretty busy day. We had a guy here all morning to install DirectTV and Chris got his great news about the boards and Miss Deanna came to babysit
For our second week of science experiments, we actually did several quick and easy activities to explore the properties of water (and a little bit of phases-of-matter while we were at it). Surface tension is awesome. We filled a translucent cup with water and talked about how if we added
It’s Volcano Day! As I’ve mentioned before, Susannah is a little bit obsessed with volcanoes right now. For weeks I’ve been thinking that we ought to make a baking soda volcano for her, and today we finally did it. First, I pulled up a great short video about the earth
Most of the time, our homeschool days bear very little similarity to my days as a public-school teacher. Oh yes, we read ‘n write ‘n cipher… but it’s one-on-one (plus a little sister and a baby sister underfoot) so it’s different. Jonas FLIES through some coursework and we linger in
MICHELLE NEBEL
I write about faith and theology, family and organizational tips. Always a planner at heart, I’m also a Bible study teacher and community volunteer. This is where I share a glimpse of my life, and I hope you’ll find the thoughts here encouraging!
