I recently learned that there are natural stages of growth for home educators.  I feel like we are just starting to enter the stage of trusting ourselves.

One of my favorite things we did this year in school was visit the Seeing Nature exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum.  

This was our first year homeschooling full-time, where we had autonomy over our schedule and the curriculum.  We used the curriculum reviewed here for 4th and 5th grade.

In the summer of 2014 we made the decision to pull our kids from the private school they were attending.  It was obvious that the little rigorous school on a farm was no longer the right fit for our family. 

This was our first year homeschooling. Curriculum reveiws for 3rd and 4th grade.

Lost, a poem by David Wagoner

Since I am consciously trying to move out of a world of scarcity and into possibility, I would like to set out a little differently this year.

I wanted to better understand some of the practices used to teach resilience, so that I might be better prepared to handle the stress of graduate school without PTSD! Here are a few practices I identified...

'The past is gone, the future is not yet here. If we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.' - Thich Nhat Hanh