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tbooks book are amazing tools and i have a few baskets filled with ones that bring stories times and places to life for us living books but we do not keep all the books we do have a couple of bookcases but we often trade out books with friends and use the local library for many of the books to help us study and explore what we are learning about carefully choosing curriculum that gives you more flexibility and freedom and less stuff to find spaces for is so freeing you can also find curriculum that can be used as a family unit or for multiple students this reduces not only what you store but your time which is valuable and worth preserving but in the end the world is your classroom learning is found on your nature walk while baking a cake together while learning to care to that pig you won at the fair in the pig scramble true story when you open yourself up to a learning lifestyle you are never without everything you need to educate curriculum we love that embraces these guidelines are the peaceful press five in a row the good and the beautiful beautiful feet books the homegrown preschooler simple homeschool supplies are often the best some of our favorite supplies are a good pencil case for traveling ticonderoga pencils scholar colored pencils watercolors chalkboards big little and travel ones sketch books composition notebooks clipboards but no matter how you learn where you study and what you use to complete it just keep exploring because the season of learning should never end more pictures on instagram of our homeschool journey posted by lisaplus6 at 12 00 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels homeschooling the peaceful press sunday october 1 2017 homeschool curriculum homeschool love i am coming back to this blog this place of words and school and pictures that tell stories of what we have lived and loved in an education journey after a hard year a year we added a sweet new baby a year we gained a medically fragile child a year we pushed through a curriculum we did enjoy and liked enough but did not love and thrive with and we are healing and we are coming into a new year ready for gentle intentional wild and free we cannot stop finding and exploring learning it s a beautiful thing and one i am thankful for we have been seeking looking praying over where we would be heading for our curriculum in the 2017 2018 school year and the more we looked the less i found what my heart was looking for then one day i found the peaceful press i was looking to read the little house on the prairie collection and i was searching for a curriculum to use as a base for our learning but many things i found did not have the simplicity gentleness and exploration i was looking for they did not direct towards well written living books that our family enjoys gathering around to read and imagine with but the peaceful press was offering a newer curriculum called the playful pioneers that looked like it might fit well and as i poured over the full curriculum after purchasing i knew it fit it was everything we needed and wanted and i breathed a sigh of relief we were ready and when we are ready to gather and light fires of learning traveling into new places and into hearts of people in between the lines of the stories we are ready to begin so here we are beginning learning over cups of tea and stacks of books around our worn and wonderful kitchen table i ll be back with more of our journey this year with all of things that we study and we take flight in for now i encourage you to take a peek at the peaceful press and consider it for your sweet rhythm as well as you gather and build your home nests this year you can also following along on instagram too where i will be sharing more words and daily pictures of our journey curriculum we use and love right start mathematics the homegrown preschooler playful pioneers my father s world first grade my father s world adventures in us history beautiful feet books early american history exploring nature with children the good and the beautiful posted by lisaplus6 at 12 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels curriculum homeschool room homeschooling the peaceful press saturday may 16 2015 weeks 27 and 28 abraham lincoln and bird studies week 27 abraham lincoln we began our abraham lincoln studies with something crafty and this cute timeline you may remember this from our george washington studies we started reading about abraham lincoln in the story of the us and also in this book which we adore abraham lincoln by ingri and edgar parin d aulaire we made these fun paper plate masks too serious faces and sweet smiles the girls also completed these notebook pages state studies minnesota and oregon we read about minnesota and added that page to our completed pages pile which is really a nice stack of completed leaning now we may have had some technical difficulties with the capital but i did not have them change it we just talked about i like to keep these fun and less stressful especially since they will complete 50 by the end of the school year that is a lot of learning and coloring and labeling and we studied a little about oregon as well and spent a little extra time learning about their state bird the meadowlark you can create simple silly meadowlark hand prints like these with just a little brown and yellow paint and some willing hands of course the western meadowlark is actually the state bird of six states kansas montana nebraska north dakota oregon and wyoming only the northern cardinal is a more popular civic symbol edging out the meadowlark by one state here are our postcards for minnesota and oregon we have been so blessed by our family friends and even friends of friends who have sent us so many postcards from almost all of the fifty states my girls have really enjoyed each one many have pretty pictures facts and even little messages for the girls i have seen them reading these spreading them all over the schoolroom floor many times throughout the day thank you friends for taking the time to help us learn and making these girls feel so loved jesus is the shepherd i am the good shepherd i know my sheep and my sheep know me john 10 14 on this post you can read about how we had learned that jesus is the lamb of god but jesus is not only the lamb he is a good shepherd too when we believe in jesus we become god s lambs who are forgiven we deserve to die because of the sins we do but jesus took our place on the cross he died for us taking our punishment fully we have been gifted more than we could ever really understand now we are his his just like that we are his little lambs and he is our great protector provider our shepherd and that gift is one that changed my life redeemed it i want my children to know that this week during our bible lesson time as we read the verses and studied we created this shepherd with his sheep craft i provided the supplies but i did not give any rules for how to complete this activity i love how the paper towel rolls are just a little too big and the sheep have little polka dots the best projects are the ones i let go of and let them grab onto the girls completed their verse notebook pages as well i am so thankful for all the verses the girls are hiding in their hearts this year to give you a little more detail on where and what we are studying you can check out our classroom reveal here and our curriculum for 2014 2015 here and week one here posted by lisaplus6 at 7 16 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels adventures birds homeschooling mfw state studies saturday april 18 2015 week 22 wagon trains and the human body week 22 state studies illinois and alabama illinois the girls completed their state pages for illinois they came out so nicely this week the girls really enjoyed the growing seasons book by elsie lee splear we read this week it is full of beautiful photos and information on american history and seasons that sparked more questions and studying we loved that it was a story about sisters too i cannot recommend this book enough we also pulled out our cardinal projects and resources from week 15 and two more postcards were added to our portfolio alabama we added these alabama pages to our completed pages also this very special post card we made sweet potato pie and learned about george washington carver did you know he created 118 products from sweet potatoes we also read about rosa parks this week taking some extra time really brainstorming what her life and her decisions would have been like we discussed making bold right decisions and also living a life of humility which rosa parks did beautifully we completed this rosa parks bus and writing activity on the inside they wrote some of what they had learned in their own words oh those little windows are just so full of sweet i love their little colorings at this stage of life we watched all the versions of the helen keller movie we could find on youtube and learned so many things about her life and were reminded how blessed we are we also sent away for this braille alphabet card you can send away for one here it is free and a great addition to this week s learning wagon trains we read west by wagon train in our american pioneer and patriots book and we looked through this book as well we also created wagon crafts this week these crafts just use things we already had around our home and they are definitely imperfect i love that about them though abraham lincoln on money we talked about abraham lincoln a little bit and what us currency his face can be found on this girl completed this penny worksheet here she is observing a five dollar bill human body unit we really enjoyed spending time in the afternoons learning and exploring more about the human body this week some of our favorite resources for this unit were the human body flip book the human anatomy felt set the usborne first encyclopedia of the human body usborne s see inside your body the squishy human body by smartlab toys on a different note we were supposed to make a quilt this week and my heart is so torn over it i have fabric even a us map panel and we just cannot do it i do not have the time without a baby or a toddler to sew it hurts a little to just set the fabric aside but it is what it is that is life sometimes things get done but sometimes they just do not it is such a delicate balance in our homeschooling my girls are always so gracious about these things too i really appreciate their tender thoughtful hearts in these times of needed mommy grace really and if you have extra time and talent and want to help them make a quilt the fabric is still sitting in a basket just waiting to be a quilt someday any day posted by lisaplus6 at 4 55 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels adventures homeschool room homeschooling mfw state studies the human body saturday april 11 2015 week 21 robert fulton sink and float fruit of the spirit week 21 robert fulton we learned about robert fulton in the story of the u s book this week he invented the steamboat which the girls enjoyed coloring on their notebooking page and also crafting a little paper example to play with as well these origami style steamboats were very fun and easy to create you may notice that i am correcting a bit more of the handwriting and punctuation these days i think they are ready for that correction and handling it well while still having fun learning about our history as a country i also noted how wonderful their coloring was this week i was proud of them for taking their time and doing their best work coloring can be something they rush to get done but i can always tell when they take time to slow down and try to create something special state studies we completed two more state sheets indiana and mississippi and adding them to the growing stack of states we have completed sink or float we had fun with our experiments this week i found a simple sink and float printout online for free we used one sheet to cut up and laminate to label our result jars on our tray and one to write out both our predictions and our results we gathered objects in our schoolroom for our experiment and took turns placing them in our jar of water one by one jotting down the results as we went here is what our tray looked like when we had finished my girls did really well predicting most of these objects which was really surprising to me since we have not talked a lot about this topic in the end whether or not an object will float or sink depends on its own density and the density of the liquid it is placed in making juice we read some of our science in the kitchen book experimenting with fruit we learned about plant cells and how much water they hold in plant cells the vacuoles are much larger than in animal cells when a plant cell has stopped growing there is usually one very large vacuole sometimes that vacuole can take up more than half of the cell s volume the vacuole holds large amounts of water the girls squeezed some orange segments to see how much juice those segments held we also observed how the orange pieces looked after the juice was removed next we gathered several different fruit to see how much juice each would have and how hard it would be to extract it there was a lot of squeezing mashing and banging going on in my kitchen all while a happy baby and toddler enjoyed snacks of leftovers and pulp and here is what we ended up with in the end the best part is my girls and littles ate or drank all of our experiment so nothing was wasted jesus the vine we learned about jesus as the vine this week on sunday we were fighting a virus and needed to stay home from worshiping with our church family so i thought it would give us a perfect opportunity to create a few special crafts and reread what we had learned this week in our bible lessons we created two crafts to review the story of shadrach meshach and abednego you can read about their story in daniel 3 these sweet crafts can be found here they were really easy to put together it was simply coloring cutting piecing together and gluing i found the idea for this cute puppet theater here the girls really enjoyed these my preschooler also really liked this craft fruit of the spirit we also created these watercolor paintings with punched out grapes each with a fruit of the spirit written on them but the fruit of the spirit is love joy peace patience kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness and self control against such things there is no law galatians 5 22 23 i always love how unique my girls pictures are just like how god created them unique and beautiful this week was not how i planned but it was a very fruitful week to give you a little more detail on where and what we are studying you can check out our classroom reveal here and 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