Science Corner – 4 Ways to Study Habitats

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Welcome to the Science Corner! This week, we will be discussing habitats and four ways that you can use to study about them. What is a habitat? Habitat - The natural environment of an plant or animal. A habitat describes the particular neighborhood where a plant or animal is found, including all of the living and non-living factors that surround it. Having an awareness of habitats is … [Read more...]

What is Living Book?

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Everywhere you turn, homeschoolers are touting living books and the benefits of using them in educating our children.  The title is being slapped on all kinds of different books, so much so that many non-living books are being labeled as living. Even I have been guilty of mislabeling a reference book as living, which I believe has largely come out of a misunderstanding of what a living book … [Read more...]

A Day in the Life of…

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Welcome to the fourth installment of the "Not" Back to School Blog Hop!  If you haven't been to this blog before, let me begin by saying... Hi, I'm Paige and welcome to my corner of cyberspace!  Be sure to check out Elemental Blogging's bi-weekly Science Corner posts to grab some useful tips and tools to help you with science education this year. This week we get to share what a day in our … [Read more...]

10 Random Things About Me

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So today as part of iHomeschool Network's 10 in 10 today, we are sharing "10 Things About Me You Should Know", but I'm thinking that maybe I should call this "10 Things About Me You Might Want To Know" or "10 Random Things About Me". So here it goes, 10 Random Things About Me: 1. I like yogurt with fruit and granola every morning for breakfast.  I used to buy the generic fruit yogurt, but … [Read more...]

5 Tips to help you get it all done!

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As a homeschooler and work at home mom, it's hard to find that balance between all the things that pull on my schedule.  It is difficult to figure out how to organize my week so that I can do what I need to do and not get to side-tracked by what I don't. With the new school year just around the corner, I thought that I would answer a question that I get quite often... "How do you get it all … [Read more...]

Interview with the Notebooking Fairy…

 I have been a fan of Jimmie's for years and have used several of her notebooking pages from the Notebooking Fairy in our homeschool. So, when she asked if she could interview me about how we use notebooking in Elemental Science, I jumped at the chance. Here's how the interview began... Paige, why does Elemental Science include notebooking? I have always been a fan of notebooking as a … [Read more...]

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