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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
We have officially finished out the 2025-2025 school year, so this is the time of year where I get to come here and reflect. I personally enjoy coming back to these blog posts and reminding myself of what we accomplished and the memories we made. I also like to be share what we actually used […]
Lately, I’ve been asked to share how our family ultimately decided to go with a stricter Charlotte Mason philosophy as opposed the more eclectic Charlotte Mason “leaning” philosophy that we held before. This decision has come with much thought and prayer. I was the girl who said I’d never be caught dead reading six volumes […]
This year has, without a doubt, been the most successful homeschooling year yet. What’s laughable about that fact is that our life has also never been more full of uncertainty. We are currently living with my parents in a very small, quaint townhome where we have very little space for schooling. 95% of our materials […]
