I've tried my best to create a custom high school for each of my kids. I let them find ways to pursue their passions. With my tech kid, we've tried lots of different ideas to find what worked best for him. Here are my tips to help your kids pursue their passions in … [Read more...]
Galveston Flood of 1900 lesson
Oh gosh, almost 10 years ago, because Jeff and I went there for our 10th anniversary, we stayed in the Hotel Galvez in Galveston. It's the oldest hotel in Galveston, and in the basement it has a museum to the history of the island, AND a history of the Galveston Flood of 1900. I … [Read more...]
Growing Up Wild Missions Curriculum
Storytime! Growing up I would carefully go through the CBD catalog and pick out books and DVDs I wanted for Christmas, and then I'd wait to see what my Mom picked out of the various items I'd found. One year when my kids were little, she handed them a CBD catalog and asked them … [Read more...]
Coding Classes that actually code
Coding Classes. I live in the Tech Capital of Texas and you see signs everywhere of places offering after school coding classes, or classes for your homeschool, or coding classes to hook your kids on coding. I've looked into a few of them, and most of them left me saying, "Meh. … [Read more...]
Challenge your kids to make a shaduf
I'm about to do something controversial. Are you ready? When teaching ancient history for our history lessons a few years ago, I put the invention of the shaduf with Ancient Mesopotamia rather than Ancient Egypt. But Ticia, isn't the cradle of civilization in ancient Egypt, not … [Read more...]
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