Welcome to the Friday Friendship Feature #7! Finding Your Educational Philosophy Today’s Topic? Educational Philosophy–What is Yours? I normally feature a blog post that I’ve run across during the past week, and that needs to be shared! Somehow, my thoughts have been in a jumble this week, and I have not had the mental time…
Read moreHomestead Blog Hop 249
Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop! Every week… I welcome you to the Homestead Blog Hop, and every week, I marvel about how busy we all are! Do you feel it? From soccer to socializing, from laundry to choosing logos, our lives are spinning so fast these days! I never envisioned myself as a soccer…
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Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop! Welcome to the Homestead Blog Hop, #248! I’m glad you’ve stopped by! Our week has been full, as always! We’ve been working on some Homestead Cabin chores. Our sixteen-year old son and our friend have been busy sawing, routing, and nailing, as they make barn-style doors for our cabin. …
Read moreDIY Teen’s Travel Journal
Teen Travel Journal with Writing Prompts Or…A Desperate Attempt to Convince My Son to Write! Our sixteen-year old son is heading to Peru in a few days! This is his first real time away from home. Happy + Nervous So…we are excited and a tad nervous about the whole experience! He’ll be with a big…
Read moreRidge Haven Building Update
New developments at Ridge Haven Homestead
Read moreLessons from Clay in the Potter’s Hand
You are the Potter, I am the Clay If you have seen a potter working on the clay, then these verses will come alive for you. They did for me as I observed the shaping process of the clay. But now, O LORD, thou [art] our father; we [are] the clay, and thou our potter;…
Read moreHomeschool apprenticeship–a practical look
Have you considered a homeschool apprenticeship? Homeschool apprenticeship–I wrote this article for my homeschool blogging site. This article originally appeared on SDAhomeschools.org. You can view the original post at the address below, but I have tweaked it a bit here. http://www.sdahomeschools.org/have-you-considered-apprenticeship/?fbclid=IwAR1iLZkQT8KRCfApMcy0NgQzbF8wGXHFcHkQsPw9ywb_XqL6-G7mw0AboT8 I am excited to share some experiences that I believe will turn your home…
Read moreFive Love Languages for Children, Hugs and Tickles
The Five Love Languages for Children, My Experiment Day One, Again Four years ago, I performed this experiment–try out one of the five love languages on my children for a day at a time. I was curious to notice any changes, if any, in my three boys, as a result of receiving different love languages…
Read moreYou Might Be a Homesteading Homeschooler!
You might be a homesteading homeschooler if…
Read moreMonday in January.
It’s the first Monday of the year! It’s the first day back to school after two and a half weeks off. It’s Daddy’s first day back to work also! Let’s just say we had a few adjustments to make and some links to work out in our homeschool day today. Without going into any…
Read morePumpkin Math
We did a hands-on math day today in honor of Fall. Pumpkin Math! We took weights, lengths, circumferences, estimates, and graphed all of our results on a bar graph. Each boy got a pumpkin and got to experiment with many different math terms and calculations. To estimate circumference, each boy cut a string corresponding…
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