This is Homeschool

At some point in our home education journey, we stared to relax our rigid schedule and school at home began to evolve from a segmented time set aside to work on set subjects to a learning being a natural extension of everything in our life. We still do have blocks of time set aside for subjects that we do daily but we don't set down at the table and work for eight hours a day. Our focused learning has been a little lighter since Hensley has arrived. Right now we work on reading aloud in the mornings. We read a chapter or two of our literature book and poetry each day and rotate our science and history books every other day. Math and reading lessons are done in the evening, after Chad and Easton are in bed and the kids have came in from playing outside. We believe unstructured play time is as important as academics are. We are working on moving devotions from table school time to evening after dinner so Chad is able to lead the devotion.

Here is a small glimpse into our days!

Our equivalent of gym class: 

Daddy teaching the kids how to play Around the World

Greysen and Maezy working on a reading lesson

Working on a late night online art lesson 

Mazey LOVES Madeline, here she is reading Madeline to Hensley and Easton while he holds Madeline

Maezy found an online drawing tutorial for Madeline. I adore her finished product.

Hudsyn working on an art lesson and Oreo prohibiting the use of the colored pencils! ;) 

Watching a documentary about Flamingos

Ironically, we saw a whole bunch of flamingo's at the Zoo just a few days later

Bella and Hudsyn in their favorite tree working toward memorizing the Old Testament books of the Bible

Hudsyn and Greysen having a snack and playing addition facts war

Me and the kids playing addition and subtraction facts sequence before bed

Hensley sleeping while I read a chapter of The Wheel on the School to the kids

The kids playing games and drawing during our read aloud time

Hudsyn and Greysen's drawing of Greysen and Maezy

Bella took a break from playing to take a walk with me and Easton and push him on the swing

Hudsyn and Maezy researching a paper-mache project to make over the summer

Bella drawing during reading time 

Bella's Easter basket drawing

Hudsyn's Easter basket drawing