Category Archives: Homeschooling

The Groove

I realized the other day that Zorba and I finally have a rhythm down to our homeschooling. We are on a roll, thank goodness! It took us (me) a bit to figure out what works for us, but now that I have I feel so much better. And really I’m still figuring out what works...

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Math

We are doing Saxon Math.  Having had a difficult time with math as a child, I felt unsure on how to go about teaching Zorba math and this is the one area that I really wanted (needed) a guide to follow.   (It is funny how my old math anxieties have surfaced since we decided to...

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Paper Bowl – Part 2

Our bowl took a couple of days to dry out because we had a much needed day of rain that slowed down the drying process.   And then the weekend arrived and I decided to wait until today to start back on it.  So today, we got back to bowl business.  Today Zorba applied a coat...

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The Bean Plant

I’m going to tell you the whole truth and nothing but the truth about me homeschooling Zorba.  I do not know what the hell I’m doing.  For reals.  But I’m trying.   I’m not sure what method of homeschooling that we prefer yet, so I’m just pinching and pulling from this and that and here and...

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Paper Bowl

I got SouleMama’s new book last week (or at least I think it was last week) and I love it!   I will be trying my hand at quite a few of the projects in there.   I’m trying to do some sort of art project every day with Zorba.  Today’s project came from SouleMama’s book, it was a paper...

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