Well our Harry Potter week was a hit!  In fact we are still finishing up some projects because he wanted to do more Harry Potter themed activities.  Last year we made our wands and this year we got to use…

We did this a couple of weeks ago, but I forgot to write about it.  We found coordinates for our island this time.  It was interesting researching where it might be located considering flight times and the plane he choose…

We have been studying different creation myths for the past couple of weeks and now the Hellion is working on writing his own.  We are using storyjumper.com and making it into a book.  This has been a great project so…

So we finally got around to figuring out how he was going to get to the Island with his team and all their gear.  We spent a good portion of the day researching costs for jets, boats, and helicopters.  He…

We are off to a rough start.  We definitely don’t have as much time as I would like to work on this project, but we are slowly but surely getting there.  This week the Hellion drew a map of the…

A group of billionaires funded a project to create dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts on an Island in the Pacific.  Now the scientists are gone and workers have disappeared.  It is your job to go to this island and find…

The Hellion is seriously kicking butt this year!  I am so proud of him!  He is flying through his math books.  We are almost 1/2 way through this year’s work already.  We are now only doing his workbooks 2 days…

So we changed up a lot of things this year. Hopefully it will all work out. We are using Beast Academy for our Math this year.  So far we both love it! The Hellion loves the colors and comic book style…

We started up our homeschooling year a little early.  I wanted the Hellion to have a break, but not such a long one that he forgot everything he had learned.  We took a few trips and had a lot of…

So I have been reading up on unschooling and how it all works.  I am still not an expert on it, but I think I get the gist.  It is child-led learning.  Where the kid directs the way he learns…