During the summer months, we have a few more chores, but less time. I created a list that has most of the chores on it. I color coded it, boys, girls, and all… Since we have 3 boys and 3 girls, it works pretty well. On whatever major cleaning day we have for a week, […]
Ten Basic Weekly Chores for Easier Home Up Keep.
May 15, 2012 by 4 Comments
As a mom of six, I have found that if you do a few basic things every day as I discussed a couple weeks ago, and then a few other basics every week, your house will be easier to keep up. It seems when I talk to homeschooling and stay at home moms, that keeping […]
Summer Fun doesn’t have to cost a fortune…
May 3, 2012 by 1 Comment
I hear a lot about how children don’t know how to entertain themselves. They need this electronic device or that toy. My children can play outside for hours, or re-enact the Civil War or some other historical event or a scene from a book for days…DAYS. Every day my children have TWO WHOLE hours of […]
The 2012 Great Clothing Switch Out Begins! Large Family Style
March 29, 2012 by 11 Comments
This is the time of year, that nearly EVERY large family mom despises. Most of us have bags or stashes of clothes for 0-3 mo. for each gender on up to a few sizes above our oldest. In large families, that is a LOT of clothes. If you are on a farm, there seems to […]
Home Educating Family’s On the Go Planner~ My brain on in a book!~Giveaway 3 Winners!!
November 16, 2011 by 16 Comments
I am not naturally organized. In fact, even when I try really hard I am not really organized. I have great ideas, and I mean well, but, in reality, I am just not an organized person…or am I? In fact, I have made wonderful forms that keep my older children organized in their homeschool lesson […]
The Blessing of Raising Strong Willed Children
October 17, 2011 by 5 Comments
As a mom of six strong willed children, three of which are very strong willed, I say this with a smile. I now, am seeing some of the fruit of a strong will in my older children. My oldest has been and is still very strong willed. By the time he was ten months old, […]
Fall Field Trip Frenzy
September 29, 2011 by 5 Comments
Every fall it is like this…field trip opportunities abound. This year though, it has been a little busier then the last couple. We have been to a homeschool fun day, the eye doctor four times, State Fair two times, Wild Life and Parks day, Peace Treaty Pageant, Farm helping too many times to count (from […]
Fall Party Fun
September 27, 2011 by Leave a Comment
The Hot Guy and I have discussed having one of those big BBQs at our home for several years, however we never got around to it, until Sunday evening. This wasn’t as big as we have thought we would do, but we had a lot of fun, and well, 24 children running around is kind […]
Favorite Curriculum for our Family so Far…
September 5, 2011 by Leave a Comment
As we really get going in school, I am watching my children to see what seems to be their favorite curriculum so far. Why? Because I want to see if there is a pattern. Can I help make other subjects as interesting or fun for them? So far, for my oldest daughter it seems to […]
Friday Fun School September 2
September 1, 2011 by 2 Comments
As I have mentioned before, Fridays are our Fun School days. We play games, and do experiments and other such fun. This Friday we will be doing a Nature Scavenger Hunt. This is one of the activities in our Exploring Creation through Flying Creatures study. Next up with will break out our new Scrubble Cube. […]
Discouragement in the Homeschool Trenches~Really in only week 3? Digging out!!
August 30, 2011 by 3 Comments
This week hasn’t quite gone like I wanted it to. Between appointments and baling hay we haven’t been able to start school in the mornings, and well, school work in the afternoons doesn’t seem to be working out. And if not getting school isn’t enough, chores are all messed up too. If I make […]
Preschool Fun~Keeping them occupied during homeschool lessons.
August 29, 2011 by 4 Comments
Over the last few weeks, as I was preparing for our school year, I made a change, that I hadn’t really talked about. I decided NOT to put our 3.5 year old in with our kindergarten and first grade. He is able, but he is not ready, as his attention span does not have the […]
If it isn’t Working, Fix it…Don’t be Owned by Curriculum that isn’t working…
August 25, 2011 by 5 Comments
As a fairly seasoned homeschooler, I have had to learn this. Sometimes it is a hard lesson, other times it is fairly easy to take. Already into our second week, I am having to make a couple of changes. Character Quality Language Arts is one of those changes. This is the second time I have […]
A Day in the Life of a Peace Creek on the Prairie Homeschool Day
August 23, 2011 by 6 Comments
Our days are full. We live on a small farm in rural Kansas, where you can here tractors groaning, birds chirping and coyotes howling at night. My husband farms alfalfa hay and some wheat. He also does some mechanicing on various items at any point in time. He enjoys taking our children with him on […]
Friday Fun School~Aug. 19
August 19, 2011 by 3 Comments
This will not be our typical Friday Fun School, but I have been sick most of the week, as has our three year old. So, rather then stress about it, I grabbed some fun things lying around and threw them in baskets..one for the older children, and one for the younger. Our baskets this week […]
Homeschool Room Supply Organization
August 16, 2011 by 8 Comments
I have talked about our curriculum organization using file boxes. However, there is a reason I have avoided the topic of actual school supplies…markers, pencils,crayons, glue, and so forth. These items have been scattered EVERYWHERE, though I have little pencil boxes for most of it, they never end up back in them. A few weeks […]
First Day of School
August 16, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Our first day of school was an overwhelming success. In some ways, I wish it would not have gone so perfectly, because that is going to set such a high standard for our year. I think God also saw a need for a reality check, as I woke the second day of school with a […]
File Boxes with Student Notebooks~Take 3.2 on Workbox Modification
August 11, 2011 by 2 Comments
A couple of years ago, I put together File Boxes as modified Workboxes. That really worked, but somehow, I stopped using them. The main reason was the work load to keep them loaded and to make sure everything made it back to their spots. Also, the Hanging File Folders kept falling apart. The first revamping […]
Our Assignment and Record Keeping Notebooks~Using TOS Planner and My Custom Planner Pages
August 3, 2011 by 1 Comment
Over the years, I have worked hard to put together a record keeping book that would work for assignment too. However, they have always been a little too much for my older children. This year, however, seems to be the year I figured it out. I have used forms from my The 2011-12 Schoolhouse Planners, […]
Easing into the New Homeschool Year
August 2, 2011 by 6 Comments
This week we are easing into the new homeschool year. I have four weeks of lessons planned for our new year, but we won’t start on them for at least two weeks. Because we took an unexpected time off through most of the summer, I want to spend some time reviewing where we left off. […]
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