The Last Days Way Journal

We’re about seven weeks into our school year, and I am so pleased with how my second daughter is taking to formal lessons. It’s been three years since I’ve had a first grader, and so much has changed about my approach to home education. I remember drilling my oldest daughter with entirely too much material […]

I’ve read my fair share of homeschooling books, but there are a few that were game-changers and that I could read over and over again. Most I these I’ve lent out over and over to friends, or just given them away, because that’s what you do when a book changes your life. These are in […]

Friends, hi! I’ve taken about a month away from consistently posting online, and it’s been so refreshing! I needed that time to hone in on finalizing our curriculum choices for the year and also finalizing our move to a new neighborhood! We are still living with parents, but in a new house with much more […]

“But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus,” [2 Timothy 3:14-15] I am beginning this […]

Last month, I decided to embark on the tedious task of documenting every single lovely picture book that we’ve enjoyed, in the hopes of sharing them with other mamas that are looking to grow their home libraries or just have a better experience at their local public library. I will go month by month, giving […]

Our History with Math and Why We’re Switching Curricula Many of you have followed along with our family as we have had quite the journey with Math Curriculum. Last year, we hit a real sweet spot with Math with Confidence. We’ve used Math with Confidence K, 1 and 3. We still absolutely love Math with […]

Every homeschool family looks at Summer a bit differently. Some take long, full breaks; some hardly break at all. Our family falls somewhere in between. I view Summer as a time to work on skills that perhaps got put on the back burner during the previous school year. I also view Summer as a time […]

I’m starting a new series, folks! And boy, is it taking me down memory lane. I’ve decided to do a summer of picture books, month by month, day by day. One of the most frequent questions I receive from new moms is, “what books should I buy?” When building a home library full of high-quality, […]

There are countless reasons to include nature study in your homeschool, but I’ll just focus on the reasons that make it invaluable to me. Creation is used throughout the entire Bible to point to its Creator. Trees, roots, branches, stars, rivers, torrents, sparrows, eagles, mountains, steams, deserts, gardens, clouds, constellations, rocks, fire, seeds, wildflowers- can […]

Introduction We are studying the 1700’s, and I am so deep in planning that I’m actually starting to have dreams that I live in colonial times. We are focusing on following the 1700’s chronologically, while also digging in on diverse perspectives within the colonial era. I see a lot of mamas in the Charlotte Mason […]