Since our time with My Tech High we’ve been given about $6000 in reimbursement funds for educational materials. In this post I am breaking down some of our favorite things and also organizing them by items that can double up as holiday or birthday gifts.

I wasn’t quite sure the direction I wanted to head this year for Christmas School, but once I sat down and started to look at what we had, it all came together so nicely and we’re really excited for the next few weeks! We will be taking a break from all our other subjects and units and just focusing on all of these areas.

Here are a few recommendations we love to pull out during November:

A Christ-centered timeline of history has been something I have wanted to do for so long! It took me a long time to get a foundation/process for the timeline and I as I gathered my thoughts and what I wanted the timeline to reflect in our home, I tried to make sure that it could be duplicatable for others.

Ever since we decided to homeschool, I have struggled a bit on how to handle nostalgic events. Do we get go back to school shopping? What about school plays? Are my kids missing out on the fun holiday class parties? And, one of the bigger ones, what about the first and last days of school?

Ever wanted to set up a learning shelf? Here is a detailed post on one way I like to set up a themed shelf filled with lots of invitations to learn!

This year we decided to take the first couple of days back to school and do a few All About Me activities

2021-2022 Curriculum Picks

Morning routines are going to widely vary in every family, but I can’t help but feel morning time is probably one of the most important parts of our days. It is about beginning your day with Him.

Planning a year’s worth of curriculum can be overwhelming, but I love this process because it helps me brain dump. The easiest way to plan a whole year is to start big and work down small. I think of it like a vessel - first, break down your year by month — then week — then day.

The My Tech High program has been such a blessing to us during our homeschool experience. We’ve been apart of this Utah based resource for almost two years now. By the time this year is over we will have received $6800 in reimbursements and I have almost all good things to say about it.

Each year, I interview my children before I map out our curriculum plan for the approaching school year. I mostly set aside this time as an “interview” because I want to have a written record.

Happy Love Day! Here is a little look into our learning shelf and what we used this year!

Here are some resources we used from our Around the World unit study.

This was absolutely one of our favorite homeschool experiences ever!

Putting the emphasis back on the home as the best place to learn the gospel largely influenced our decision to homeschool. This is our Come Follow Me study lineup for 2021.

I wish I had words to adequately describe what the Chronicles of Narnia have come to mean to me. This was such a special unit for us.

My first go at it with an at-home learning shelf!

We use empty menu covers to help us organize frequently referenced material for our devotionals, family economy, schedules, and at-home church.

List of curriculum we used our second grade year.