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Joys of Homeschooling & Update

There is absolutely nothing like the joys of watching a child you love with all your heart slowly take on new concepts and tackle them. Watching the light in their eyes when they finally "get it". Or, for me, hearing them read, knowing it was your blessings that YOU were the one who had the privilege of teaching them that! Truly it's joyful.

This year we have made several changes. We started out with My Father's World Adventures, which we used as a spine to guide us. Initially we followed it to the teeth but found it too restricting. I enjoy teaching secondary subjects in a delight driven way. The boys are currently fascinated with horses... we will step outside the curriculum and do a unit study on that instead.

We switched gears around January and began focusing more primaritly on core subjects. It's been rewarding. I have seen my young reader blossom into more and more skillful ability, and watched my youngest child pick up phonetic concepts like a pro! Their both finished their math and phonic curricula early!

I am now enjoying a short season of planning. I have decided to continue with MFW

Adventures, still adding delight driven interests and still placing primary focus on the core subjects. Mason is moving to Math-U-See Alpha, and Zander is moving into Math-U-See beta. He is picking up those concepts very quickly so we may fly through it. Only time will tell.

We are also continuing with Click n kids for computer phonics and reading, and Explode the Code books for hand-on, worksheet instruction.

I have found though, that I sometimes need more pages in MUS than they offer, or a different way to show concepts and teach. Because of that, I have also added Mammoth Math and have also created new worksheets that will work with any math curriculum! It will go along with the basic concepts in MUS books, but can be used anywhere. As I create the series, I will post them to share. :) Supplement MUS or any other math curriculum for free!

Week of MFW Adventures

It's been a while since I've updated our MFW Adventures progress. We have had a blast these past few weeks for sure.

Here's Christopher Columbus week. We made The Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria out of aluminum foil and natural materials. We used corn husks and leaves instead of traditional sails.

It was a lovely rainy day so our seasonal creek was flowing. We all had so much fun sailing these ships down the "river". I took a lot of pictures but unfortunately, the rain caused almost every single one to come out blurry. But this is at least a snapshot of them "sailing". LOL

This week has been delayed due to some health issues. We've been plugging away at the basics instead; handwriting, reading, phonics, and math mostly.

Colonial America Links for MFW Adventures - Resources

Links for our upcoming Jamestown, Colonial & Pilgrim resources...

So far, we are really LOVING My Father's World Adventures!

My Father's World Adventures - Resources

Part 1 of my series of links to resources for our curriculum this year. I thought since I am not the only one using MFW-A, that I would share what I come across!

My Father's World Adventures:

Upcoming lessons resources....