What can I say. It's Spring, and we've been busy! We finished up our math block by building and exploring multiplication tables wit...

Our next math story juxtaposed the behavior of two eight-year-old girls named Clara. Our regular Clara, the one that Sunburst readily ident...

Do you ever get the urge to flush them down the toilet?* Sunburst has been driving me crazy! There, I said it. It's true. She's...

Moonshine is five. Hair to her knees. Not really, but she begs it Please! Five today. Eyes alight. She dreams of rescues by a knight So shi...

Did you see? Have you heard? Did you know? I just did my daily click over to Wonder Homeschool, and... I'm speechless. Almost everyth...

Do you ever feel like between homeschooling and housework and trying to meet everyone's needs that you lose sight of your own needs or d...

© Schooling from the Heart

Earlier this week, homeschooling took us on a whirlwind tour of a local park nature trail where we followed clues and found our very firs...

M is for mango. And Michigan, apparently. Carschooling... who knew?

With the maple season over, I was itching to get as far away from my house and trees as humanly possible. So last week our family hit the ...

"I'm the boss. I boss people around-- In a circle." --Moonshine, almost 5 yrs

Last week we nearly drowned in sap. During the height of our overflow the girls put together and gave a little presentation on Ghana for ou...

The trees are going crazy! The last few days we were getting only 3 gallons of sap per day. Today we had to change out the collection jugs...

Last week at our bi-monthly coop we learned how to tap maple trees, collect sap, and cook it down into maple syrup. Sunburst and I have bee...

Apparently, telling your kids they're smart sets them up to be underachieving failures. Fascinating! http://nymag.com/news/features/278...

We've been having a blast lately making up words. This is Sunburst's own Word Family Village. It's not finished yet, but she ha...