The month of March was a fun one at our house, especially in the kitchen! Our theme was cooking and baking. I found this theme to be especially easy to infiltrate into our daily conversation since, well…we eat a lot! I was constantly helping Loopy learn some new vocabulary (ingredients, units of measure, recipe, whisk, […]
Cooking and Baking Unit: Soup Craft
We loved studying cooking and baking for this month’s preschool unit. It was just so natural to learn throughout the day, whenever we were hungry (which is a lot!) We read a ton of great books, so if you need a reading list, I’m all over it for you. This post contains affiliate links that […]
Simple Cheap Nativity That Kids Can Really Play With
Like so many others, I want my children to know what Christmas is really about: Jesus, the Son of God, took on flesh to so that he could lay that life down for sinful, desperate, me. The story of the first Christmas is crazy cool and can capture a child’s imagination like only a true […]
Unit Studies for a two year old: Hits and Misses
We’ve been doing the super laid back version of preschool with Loopy for the nearly a year now. It’s working pretty well for us. My favorite part is clearing shelves at the library each month on a particular topic. Glare all you want Miss Librarian. I pay my taxes! Here are the topics we’ve delved […]
Our attempt at PRE-preschool
I’ve always known I wanted to home school my kids. I won’t go into the myriad of reasons now, but I just couldn’t picture our life any other way. I thought with Owen I would wait to start formal school till he was 4-5. I believe these super early years should be mostly play and […]