What feels like forever ago, I homeschooled my kids. We did a lot of hands on activities and went on many adventures. I had a different website going at the time, but transferred some of our fun stuff to this site. I moved most of our field trip posts to my travel website.
A big part of our life is farm related. But we do dabble in other areas, as well. We enjoy traveling. I have an etsy shop selling primarily photo booth props. To keep the ticker happy and healthy, I run. For a couple years, I home schooled the kids. And the list goes on…
It’s no secret that I love Disney. Over the years I have acquired a few fun items. I never had a good place to display them. But we are now done home schooling, and that opened up a wall that was once covered in learning material. The wall was a blank canvas that I chose …
Ridgetop Farm & Garden is a small family farm. We are Farmer John, three Farm Kids & me. I’m Jennifer, the mom in our crazy household. I am a crafter, gardener, farmer, blogger, designer & newbie runner. For awhile I home schooled our children. They are now happy public school students, which has left me …
Throughout this school year we’ve been celebrating Mexican holidays & doing crafts to go along with them. Recently we celebrated Cinco de Mayo. I was really hoping we’d be able to finish off our year with a trip to Mexico. I’d love to see Chichen Itza & other Mayan ruins. But, that didn’t happen. Bummer. …
To hold all their papers and crafts from our study of Mexico, the kids made quick and easy lapbooks. The lapbook is made from two index folders taped together. A third index folder was cut to make pockets, which were taped to the full index folders.
To go along with our Native American studies the kids made these awesome symbols out of oil pastel. The Plains Indians used both naturalistic & geometric designs in their art. We made both.
On the 5th of May the kids did not work on their regular curriculum. Instead, we had a Mexican themed party day.
To go along with our study of Mexico, we spent January 6th learning about Three Kings Day. It is 12 days after Christmas & celebrates the three wise men bringing their gifts to baby Jesus. We don’t typically celebrate this day in our family, but many Latin Americans do so we explored it.
This post contains affiliate links. Back when I was home schooling, as part of our Farmer Boy unit, we made candles. In the book Almanzo talks about taking his lantern out to do chores and walk to his room at night. We discussed how they didn’t have electricity for lighting and instead used candles. We …