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Dictation as a Discipline
By Heather Sanders. It has been two-and-a-half years since I have covered the benefits of dictation and I am pleased to say we have continued this practice as part of each homeschool week. I do not...
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American History up to 1850: Presentations & Curriculum
By Heather Sanders. Back in August, many of you helped me develop a list of American History (Fictional) readers for 5th Grade and up. As I mentioned in that particular post, I had enrolled my son...
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The Eye of the World: Book One of ‘The Wheel of Time’ Series
By Heather Sanders. At some point, somewhere, I received a recommendation to read The Eye of the World, the first book of the Wheel of Time (WOT) series by Robert Jordan. If it was one of the readers...
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Life’s Joys
By Heather Sanders. We are less than a week into December and a few days ago we joined our close friends for one of our joy-filled traditions, the annual painting of the Christmas ornaments at U...
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FREE Online Educational Resources
By Heather Sanders. Every week I receive a handful of emails from parents who want to give homeschooling a try, but do not have the financial resources to purchase a curriculum to “test the water”....
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The Evolution of Our Homeschool Perspective
By Heather Sanders. This weekend a friend and I began discussing how our personal homeschooling perspectives have evolved over the last several years. Unfortunately, we were not in a position to...
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Journaling Revisited
By Heather Sanders. You may remember my blog post about the summer journaling project initiated at the start of this past Summer. I meant to follow-up on our efforts at the start of the Fall school...
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Marion Deuchars’“Let’s Make Some Great Art!”
By Heather Sanders. Last week, in my follow-up post on our summer journaling project, Emelie let me share a few pages from her journal. We enjoyed reading all the responses, took notes on the tips,...
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FREE Online Kids’ Christmas Activities
By Heather Sanders. Though my kids have always truly enjoyed their Christmas Break, there is such a thing as too much “down” time. When the kids were younger, after the first few days of Christmas...
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All Fired-up for Christmas
By Heather Sanders. I had several requests to view our 2012 Christmas Ornaments after they were fired, so I felt Christmas Day would be perfect to post them. I am not incredibly artistic when it comes...
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Making S.M.A.R.T. Homeschool Resolutions
By Heather Sanders. At the end of every year, I catch the New Year bug to think up all manner of resolutions. Naturally, this flows into an evaluation of how we homeschool. The middle of the school...
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Images to Inspire
By Heather Sanders. At the start of each new year I take time to update and clean out my browser’s bookmarked web pages. It almost seems counterproductive for me to bookmark anything since I rarely, if...
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American History Readers – SCORE!
By Heather Sanders. Before the start of this school year, the readers here at Pioneer Woman’s Homeschooling blog responded in droves to my request for American History readers for 5th grade and up. In...
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Bones: Skeletons and How They Work
By Heather Sanders. Back in October, I wrote about how Emelie and Kenny decided to line draw and watercolor human organs. Reading through the comments on that particular post, I ended up clicking...
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Small Things – Ginny Sheller
By Heather Sanders. Recently I expressed a desire to create a list of homeschooling bloggers, something I still plan to do. However, I feel a need to clarify what I mean by “homeschool bloggers”. Most,...
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How NOT to create your own model of blood.
By Heather Sanders. For every 8 or 10 creatively inspired or textbook-driven projects that come together beautifully, there is at least 1 that is embarrassingly pathetic. Last week’s “Model of Blood”...
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Smash* Book
By Heather Sanders. Now that we are more than halfway through the school year I wanted to share about Smash* Book, an elective class my friend Shannon is teaching in our homeschool cooperative. As I...
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Making Valentine’s Day Cards
By Heather Sanders. Each year a few members of our homeschool cooperative get together to plan a Valentine’s Day party for the teachers and students. The kids exchange cards, play a game or two,...
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Want versus Need
By Heather Sanders. I am an only child. At some point in every only child’s life, we must learn the very basic, much needed and sometimes painful, lesson of want versus need. Mine and my husband’s...
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We Are Who We Are – It’s a Good Thing
By Emelie Sanders. ********************** I took the above photo above at our local homeschool co-op’s Valentine’s Day gathering and immediately fell in love with it. The photo perfectly defines this...
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