Hi! I’m Leslie- a homeschooling momma to a 5 year old girl and 19 month old boy. The 2 are as different as night and day. I share our adventures here to both inspire learning at home and chronicle our lives, because honestly, I never started the baby books and my kids will just have […]
Spring has sprung down here in Texas! The azaleas are putting out their yearly show and our yard is exploding with white and pink azaleas. With the blooming of all the flowers, comes the pollen and the bees (and allergies)! It’s absolutely perfect timing to start our Bees and Butterflies Unit from Mother Goose Time, […]
How can you incorporate kicking and painting? By painting with a ball of course! Mother Goose Time comes up with some memorable and amazing ways kids can create art- especially in their Invitations to Create which I love! They sent us a rubber ball (blue) and I added a yellow one for my 1 year […]
What is in our own backyard that is similar to what we could find on an African safari? Well, there’s grass…. trees… water…. birds… and even beetles! There are over 350,000 different types of beetles! In our Invitation to Create, we designed our own beetle today to add one more to the mix. It was […]
Did you know a beaver’s home is called a lodge? I think I learned that long ago, but it felt new to me today as we as we studied lodges and dens with our Mother Goose Time: Alphabet House unit. We started our day by finding the beaver’s home on the thematic poster. Avaleigh even […]
This month we are becoming Deep Sea Divers and exploring the Ocean with our Ocean Commotion Unit from Mother Goose Time. We live about 4 hours from the coast, and my girl has yet to see the ocean; but that didn’t stop us from experiencing. We first tasted the Ocean. After drinking regular water, we […]
How do you teach someone to be creative? How do you foster the creativity of a student? In a world of Pinterest and sharing and copying ideas, how on earth do you cultivate CREATIVITY? According to English Oxford dictionaries Creativity is:“The use of imagination or original ideas to create something; inventiveness.” Creativity includes using imagination, […]
Paleontologist. That’s what my little girl became last week as we opened our newest box from Mother Goose Time: Dinosaur Dig! For our first 4 days of home school preschool, we studied paleontologists, bones, fossils, and excavation sites. With her name tag, I wrote her name, and she used a glue bottle to trace her […]
Rain, rain, go away…. come again some other day! It’s been raining just about every afternoon ’round here, but that’s not stopping us from camping out with our Mother Goose Time! In fact, rainy days are the perfect days to build tents indoors, which is just what we did on Tent Day. A queen sized […]
We’ve had so much fun learning all about the Pond in our newest unit study! Unfortunately Sweet Pea had the flu, so we haven’t had many outdoor adventures to the local pond; however she did make her own picture of cattails at a pond the other day and had fun even with the flu. Mother […]
