Building New Roads with Chalk City

During the summer, it’s sometimes hard to find outdoor activities that won’t make you melt in the sun. We have access for a pool, but the kids only like to float on a raft. There’s not much activity in that! Continue reading

Parenting with Scripture by Kara Durbin

If you have been reading my blog for awhile, you should know that I still feel a little unfamiliar with the Bible. I love reading the Word, but I’m not sure how to interpret it or share it with others. Continue reading

Teaching through Creative Play

Now that summer is almost hear, the local schools are starting to let out. We could follow suit and end our school year at the onset of summer, but we feel that year-long education is more beneficial to our children. Continue reading

Making History Come Alive with Costumes

Next year, we are planning to start the trivium or classical education. For those who don’t know what that means, there are three parts of the trivium: grammar, logic, and rhetoric. Each section will go through four periods of history: Continue reading

How to Control Time

C has been learning out time this year. Clocks have quickly become one of his favorite things. He’s gone from drawing them on paper to fashioning them from paper plates and bags. Recently he decided he wanted to make a Continue reading