New Blog!

Our current family blog has centered primarily on the adoption of our daughter Lainey. Now that she's home we've settled into life with all three kiddos and there's so much to share!
 
So we have a new blog house for our goings-on. 

You can find it here at alifelivedlittle.blogspot.com.

Homeschooling Pics

This blog has primarily been for telling our adoption story... but adopting and the adoption process is no longer our focus at this stage in our life (though advocating for adoption and family preservation sure is!). Lainey is ours, she's home, and we are living life as a normal family! :)

And that has lately included, among other things, our adventures in homeschooling.

So, for those who might be curious - I've got a few of our homeschooling moments here to share! This is all pretty new to us, so we're taking it all slowly and having so much fun learning together. We've jumped the gun a bit out of excitement - starting a few months ago even though Canaan doesn't officially begin grade K until this fall. One of the best parts of the whole thing has been seeing Lainey and Ezra jump in and learn right along with him. These moments together have been so sweet. I am so incredibly thankful for this time in our lives!

April Homeschooling Moments

Homeschooling this April included a lot of coloring, reading, comparing weight, mini science lessons (bees, volcanoes, growing beans, oh my!), art (still life drawing, learning about the color wheel and a lot of watercolor painting), math games, and "The Canaan Show" - where Canaan filmed himself with the Photobooth app teaching math lessons and putting legos together (we ended up watching a lot of this played back and it's all pretty cute and entertaining). A LOT of our time is spent in mismatched jammies. :)

May Homeschooling Moments

Homeschooling this May looked like a lot of fun block play, more math games, a lot more reading, many trips to the library, learning about U.S. currency, using maps, and the highlight - making rock candy and learning about sugar crystals. We are also loving the core math & phonics curriculum we're using (Math U See & All About Reading).