Are you ready to get your STEM learning on this school year? Well… I have you covered!!! If you are reading from an email, you’ll probably want to click the title of this post so you can see the images. Sorry, but the emailed version of my posts doesn’t show Amazon book covers or Instagram […]
My Suburban Garden
Gardening is one of those things that either grows on you, or it doesn’t. For me, growing a garden has been a slow process… partly because I am an air-condition loving hermit in the summer if I can get away with it … and because I live in one of the hottest places this side […]
Field Trip Fun : Moody Gardens and Stewart Beach
Each year before the Texas Homeschool Coalition’s conference in the Woodlands, TX (near Houston), they schedule a fun excursion field trip for families. This year the field trip was quite a ways away in Galveston, Texas at Moody Gardens®. Moody Gardens is a unique place with all sorts of educational promise: * over 5,500 animals […]
HOME and GARDEN 101, Ironite and a Sponsored Give-Away
What could be better on a homeschool mama’s blog this time of year than a “Home and Garden 101” series (which is happily sponsored by Central Pet & Garden – who are also providing my readers with a 25$ AMEX gift card give away)? Make sure to read to the end so you can enter […]
Field Trip Foto Friday: Hike and Trails
I know I’ve shared quite a few of our Pinnacle Mountain adventures already (see links below)… but this one was unique. Instead of spending all of our time going up the mountain, we also took the to the trails and visited the swampy forest surrounding the base of the Ozark foothill. We took this field […]
Nature as a Teaching Tool
I have been inspired by so many other great nature-loving homeschool bloggers to join in the fun and begin our own nature journals. We have added nature walks to our list of “to-do” items each day since my schedule re-vamp… but sadly, we haven’t been walking. I think we will start today. I’m eager to […]
Field Trip Foto Friday: Snow Day!
What could be more educational than learning to build your very first snowman? How about learning what frostbite feels like? Yikes! Throwing snowballs is fun! My two Texas kids don’t have much experience when it comes to snow. It was like waking up to a winter wonderland this morning and there was no way school […]
