Shearer Family 2015

Shearer Family 2015

Friday, May 18, 2012

Having fun w/ my new camera

So I bought myself a Pentax x90 camera and figured the best way to learn how to use it is just take LOTS of pictures. Here are a few I took today ....











 I drive past this everytime I drive home from town.
 The old pumphouse at the front of our neighborhood

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Time4learning

Wow that month sure went by quickly! My son loved his time learning with time4learning! For a change hubby wasn't having to fight too much to get Chris to do his school work on the computer! I love how easy it is for me to log in and check what he's been doing online. As a working homeschooling mama anything that I can do to make learning fun for the kids and yet easy on me is a great resource.

Monday, March 26, 2012

Time4Learning update

So today was the first day our 7 year old has used time4learning. So far he really likes it, especially the Space stuff on the 2nd grade science. For the first time in weeks it's not a battle to get this child to do some school work!! Can't wait to see how this goes over the next few weeks!!

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Time4Learning

Over the next 30 days, I will be reviewing Time4Learning's online education program. It can be used as a homeschool curriculum, an afterschool tutorial or for summer learning. My opinion will be entirely my own, so be sure to come back and read about my experience. You can write your own curriculum review, too!

Saturday, February 11, 2012

What do you do on a nice winter day in Northern AZ?

Go play in Oak Creek of course!!!
Yep my crazy kids went playing in the creek today and had a BLAST!!!
Yes, C is in the water and B is on his way back in!
B fell in and his bottom is all wet, crazy kid!!
Why I LOVE Oak Creek Canyon!!!
One of me
Is this just so cool??
a beaver dam




Monday, January 30, 2012

Meet our class pets....

Mr Snowy

Miss Lily

Miss Lily close up
Snowy, Molly and Jitters
Will have to hunt down a picture of Yoshi.

Monday, January 23, 2012

My take on the mail box and household binder system...

I started off hunting on Pinterest for ideas and found two I really liked! One was on The Nest Effect and another was on Lovely Crafty Home then I found ideas for the household binder on pinterest too.

So here is what I came up with...
First the Box..
My Box, I used a clear plastic file box. The calendars were printed off Google.

My dividers, Mail in, mail out, to file, my 2 kids in public school each have a folder, store ads, coupons, recipes, receipts and my cleaning folder.

My cleaning folder- I am planning to start Fly Lady again.

Our Homeschool Binder, it will hold our Sonlight lesson plans.

My Organizher binder I got on clearance at Target last year!

The last section of my binder, I plan to keep our daily homeschool schedule in here, I just copied the page from my Well Planned Day planner.

Curriculum Planner pages I found online Donna Young




I put a business card holder at the front to hold all those cards you get from doctors and businesses.







Here is what my meal planner pages look like, they are from The Homeschool Mom

Page that lists everything that is in my binder.

My pen/pencil holder.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

The operation organize the Shearer house continues......

 So the fridge door is a giant dry erase board now :D Yep the to do list is staring at me ALL the time now.
 The kids chore charts are now on the side of the bookcase in the livingroom.
 The school stuff organized on the shelves. Not sure if you can see but the shelves are labeled.
 Close up of one of the shelves this one holds some Sonlight books that didn't fit on the shelf above and science books.
 Top shelf holds world history books, bottom is US history.




Sunday, January 08, 2012

our attempt at workboxes!

Since we live in a small house I don't have the space to use traditional workboxes so we are making use of plastic hanging file boxes. They work better for us since they are portable.

First off I hunted pinterest for the tags :D HEy why re invent the wheel if someone else has done it before right? Then I picked 4 colors for my kids and we even have matching color dot stickers for their books that I will eventually get color coded! So since I am only homeschooling 2 I started with work boxes for them. WIsh I could have found the file boxes in the matching colors but I couldn't so I picked up 2 on clearance for walmart $5 each.