We are trying to fit in just a few more field trips before Nanna returns to the Great White North (Alaska) so yesterday we took off for Chichen Itza. The girls and Aunt Kim and I had already experienced one...
Crocs! (no, not the shoe)
We are happy to have Nanna (Allison’s mom) visiting from Alaska for a few weeks. She’s thawing out a bit and enjoying the low hum that is the activity around our house. And she’s learning a lot from our...
Haley’s Version of The Summit
The week before last, we went to a gathering called the summit, and it was made up of about 30-40 families that came together to talk about homeschool / worldschooling. My mom wrote about it too, which you can...
The “S” word in homeschooling: Socialization
One of the most common questions that homeschoolers get is “But don’t your kids need the socialization that school provides?” I’m not going to go into that because that question has been addressed 8 ways from Friday. I’m here...
Gringas at the Planetarium
The last Friday of every month there is no school in Mexico. And I was pleasantly surprised to find a number of different workshops and classes geared towards these kids who are now free during the day. We learned...
There’s an app for everything…
…including making friends. When we decided not to enroll the kids in school here in Mexico we knew it would be a little harder for them to make friends and we’d have to put in a little more effort...
My first piano lesson
Hi everybody! It’s Haley, and this week I went to my first piano lesson! Before we moved to Panama, I took piano lessons. When we moved, I never got the chance to play the piano because of multiple reasons....
Who the heck is Ptolemy?
On January 1 we implemented a new homeschool/unschool regime. You can read all about it here but it was pretty much the opposite of a regime. Now, 3 weeks later, we thought you’d like an update… First, let me...
Zoe Squared
Our new homeschool plan gives us a lot more time to find new and different experiences for learning. Social media is great for learning about new classes or workshops, and there are quite a few towns nearby, which expands...
Sherman Family: v2.16
The winds of change have arrived at the Sherman Family. We won’t call them resolutions because that’s just so cliche. So we’ll consider it a software update to version 2.16 that coincidentally happened on January 1. Some of these we...