His Mercy is New

Papa Piccolo

Five in a Row

Papa Piccolo, our FIAR title of the week, is a sweet story about a papa cat named Piccolo. The story takes place in Italy and has fabulous illustrations showing the different characteristics of Venice. Piccolo finds himself being followed by 2 little orphan kittens and in the end, he decides to “adopt” them as his own. This is such a…
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Turtle Lapbook

Lapbooks· Nature Study· Unit Studies

I am finally getting pictures of our turtle lapbooks on the blog! Remember the turtle unit we did a few weeks ago? Well, this is the lapbook that went along with that unit. (if you are wanting to learn about turtles, keep a watch on HSS for when all the new units and lapbooks come out!) I also hope to…
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Nature walks

Charlotte Mason· Nature Study

I have posted before about the wildlife observatory spot that is just down the street from us. Well, we have been visiting our spot more and more frequently. Usually at least 1-2 times a week; daddy has even been getting in on the fun! Everytime we go we look for our regular friends: the turtles. Sometimes we see them out…
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Garden grow!

Nature Study

Here are the latest pictures of our sunflower garden! These things are getting pretty big! I am wondering…if anyone knows, when do the flowers bloom? The plants are so tall and I keep hoping the flowers will start popping out, none of them have yet. Here is the entire rectangular sunflower garden/fort: Here is Emily standing next to the tallest…
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Another year has come to an end…

Family· Homeschooling - General

No, I didn’t look at the calendar wrong…it’s not New Year’s Eve…just the end of another school year for us! Now, we do school year round, so the end and the beginning sometimes run together, but I wanted to take a few minutes to think about the past year and all the growing and learning my sweet children have done….
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