it’s all fun and games until the grades are due
This is my dining room table right now. Dinner is supposed to be in just over an hour, but I’m still cranking through papers, photographing the best work of my two busy students. Evidence, to our...
View Articlehow does my garden grow?
Well, our portfolios are complete and handed in and it’s time to turn our focus to other, more relaxing occupations while we wait for our final grades to be released. We’ve been adding to our...
View Articlekindness balls
We’ve been having some pretty fractious days, lately. Too much together time, I think. Too much sitting at a table completing the last few pages of maths when the green grass outside is calling. The...
View Articlelavender blue
Yesterday morning we had the luxury of whiling away several hours at the Okanagan Lavender Herb Farm on Takla Road in South Kelowna. I wrote, previously, about the local, outdoor attraction, here. I...
View ArticleFather’s Day fixer upper – wainscoting DIY
This past Father’s Day weekend, Mrs. Pear Tree and the kidlets were out-of-town, attending a friend’s graduation. So I had the whole place to myself for two days – and while the cats were away, the...
View Articleat a crossroad
There has been some heavy-duty thinking going on at chez Pear Tree this summer. Last school year was our first with both kids doing homeschool, and it was a doozy. I was definitely challenged – some...
View Articlepizza night
It was pizza night last night at Chez Pear Tree, and, while I’m definitely a proponent of ordering in, I occasionally feel inspired to bake my own. The first few times I tried making my own pizza (with...
View Articleimagination station
My kids are big fans of the Adventures in Odyssey series. If you haven’t encountered it before, it’s a radio drama-style program for kids, but with Bible messages. Anyway, a regular feature of each...
View Articlecoffee corner
Let me introduce you to my official coffee station. I don’t know why I didn’t do this sooner. Not only do I love to use it, everything nice and close at hand (spoons in the drawer directly below,...
View Articlecolouring in the lines
So that cold that’s been going around? It finally caught up to us. We’re sniffly/stuffy/sinusy/coughy and just that little bit irritable today and I think, as fat flakes of snow drift down YET AGAIN...
View ArticleWalking in big shoes
To cap off their social studies unit on Canada, my son’s teacher had him and his homeschool co-op classmates create a living, mini museum featuring prominent Canadians. Each student had to pick a...
View Articlethat time of the term
And this is where the desire to blog about homeschooling is overshadowed by the need to actually, ahem, homeschool the bright young things. I just survived another portfolio deadline. There are many...
View Articlehow does my garden grow?
Well, our portfolios are complete and handed in and it’s time to turn our focus to other, more relaxing occupations while we wait for our final grades to be released. We’ve been adding to our...
View Articlekindness balls
We’ve been having some pretty fractious days, lately. Too much together time, I think. Too much sitting at a table completing the last few pages of maths when the green grass outside is calling. The...
View Articlelavender blue
Yesterday morning we had the luxury of whiling away several hours at the Okanagan Lavender Herb Farm on Takla Road in South Kelowna. I wrote, previously, about the local, outdoor attraction, here. I...
View ArticleFather’s Day fixer upper – wainscoting DIY
This past Father’s Day weekend, Mrs. Pear Tree and the kidlets were out-of-town, attending a friend’s graduation. So I had the whole place to myself for two days – and while the cats were away, the...
View Articlean update and exclusive VIP offer for you
Hello former Pear Tree followers, It’s been a while since I’ve been on this old blog, and a lot has changed since then! No, The Pear Tree blog is not being revived. But because you followed it for a...
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