I feel sad to say that our homeschooling journey is at an end. I’ve loved this last year homeschooling Timmy. I would continue it in a heartbeat, but I truly believe that being in school is better for him and his social skills. I feel that in order to properly get his therapies, he also [...]

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The really cool thing is that none of these workbooks cost me over $4!  I was able [...]

I have some acrylic paint paper, so I cut it up into quarters and Timmy and I each painted a picture.  They are the perfect size to use as postcards!  We’ll be sending these cuties out this week to some other homeschoolers that are going to become our penpals! YAY!   I’m looking forward to [...]

We went to Harvest Hollow today!  It was fun and very educational!  They have a nice petting zoo there!  We were supposed to go with the Homeschool group yesterday, but Timmy was coughing awful and I didn’t want to take him out in the cold.  So today it was!  Pumpkin bowling, petting zoo, tons of [...]

I don’t trust the school.  Am I being paranoid to think they will try to screw with me?  Maybe.  I don’t know.  I do know, though, that I’m keeping records of EVERYTHING that I do with Timmy to prove that he is getting a full education here at home.  Every worksheet he completes.  Every art [...]

Timmy learned all about pollution today.  T4L had a chapter on it for him to work on this week.  He read through the whole chapter, and then after did some extra work on the side to go along with it.  He cleaned and smashed down all of our recyclables and we talked all about recycling [...]

I’ve done nothing but check out different curriculum for the entire week.  What can we afford?  What will work well for Timmy?  What will be up to NY’s standards?  A friend of mine suggested Time4Learning.com and I’m so happy she did.  We “enrolled” Timmy in their first grade curriculum and it is so great.  [...]