It was a Sunday afternoon and I was 8 years old. My sisters and I had been busy playing outdoors and were coming in for a drink of water when we noticed our mom tracing circles of various dimensions. Intrigued, I walked over and asked what she was doing. She put down the protractor and […]
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Colene Lewis
For an official Speakers Packet email: Colene(at)heatherhaupt.com Here is an official bio for Colene Lewis: 100-Word Bio Colene homeschooled her daughters through high school in a home where learning was a joy and a way of life. Earning scholarships, each girl excelled at college in biology, engineering, English, and law. More importantly, all three women […]
Room to Learn… A peek into our learning spaces
As we dive into a new year, I love to sit back and take stock. I’m reminded that one of the benefits of homeschooling is that it doesn’t have to take place in a schoolroom or between the hours of 8 and 2, Monday thru Friday. No, education is an atmosphere. It’s a way of […]
Our Learning Adventure Plan: 5th, 3rd, 1st
Another year and I can’t help but think of it in an Anne of Green Gables kind of way… We have a fresh start. After a month and a half off, we dove back into our regular learning routine. For some reason our new starts aren’t really ever easy, but I get excited each and […]
How We Do School with the Flu
Well, flu might be an overstatement, but last week all was plugging along nicely… I was even outside running around with the kids as they recreated Sparks-a-Rama in the backyard. We stopped to run to the store for dinner ingredients. When we returned, the customary hurry-and-clean-up-before-daddy-gets-home commenced. Except that a certain 6 year old suddenly […]
Looking Back: Top Posts from 2013
Hello everyone. It’s been a while, hasn’t it? I don’t feel like blogging and I don’t feel like reading blogs in December, so I decided to step away from the computer for the last half of December. It was a lovely break, despite being plagued by sickness that didn’t seem to want to relinquish it’s […]