Dewey's Treehouse

News from the homeschool front: In Bible lessons, we have just killed off King Saul (and ended the book of 1 Samuel). We are studying seeds...

Just to stay caught up on school... The Apprentice and I are reading How to Read a Book (for the third year!); Are You Liberal, Conservativ...

The Treehouse Squirrels have taken a middle ground on October 31st celebrations. We have never gone all out with decorations, but the Squir...

Another ick story about how homeschoolers are a bunch of well-meaning but misguided amateurs. (Thanks again to www.HomeschoolBuzz.com.) F...

The kitchen walls. Really. I mean, where else are you going to put the timeline and the contact-paper-posterboard-leaf constructions and the...

First, Pumpkin Cake. Or Pumpkin Loaf. Or Pumpkin Muffins, if you're so inclined. This appeared, with an appetizing-looking photograph,...

Working on: Paradise Lost . (You didn't think I bought it just to class up the coffee table, did you? I am in Book II and thoroughly ...

If you understand this t-shirt , then you must have used Cuisenaire rods. I've still been waiting for someone to design an "I love ...

We went to Peter Pan today. It was funny. It had Tinkerbell and Wendy and John and Michael. Michael was the silliest. He got knocked ov...

Check out the Carnival of Homeschooling #42 --which is, of course, the Answer to Everything.

Crayons' second tooth fell out this weekend. And like the first one, it disappeared. Well, at least she got to hold this one before it ...

(Reposted to include the photos, now that we have a faster connection and can get them uploaded!) October 1st was a rummage sale at one of...

One of the Beehive inhabitants, Beatrice, has begun a blog of her photographs . I thought that might interest a couple of regular Treehouse...

In February 2003, Canadian Living Magazine published a story about chef Earl Johnson's way-better-than-your-average-cafeteria-food at ...

I found this recipe a long time ago in an ad for Nabisco 100% Bran Cereal (Nabisco's version of All-Bran). The ad called it Coffeeberry...

Things I’ve learned from homeschooling 1. How to get laundry in and start lunch between math and geography. 2. That there's no such t...

It was one of those quiet, sunny afternoons when nobody wanted Mama Squirrel around...sniff. So she quietly sneaked away and caught the bus...

The Deputy Headmistress posted some lesson plans ( here , here ) that she wrote for her girls to use with one of the Draw Write Now books. ...

This is another of those posts that I’ve been trying to pull together for awhile, and it’s been even harder and slower to write than the fru...

I'm finding Fridays are our more-relaxed homeschool day this year. Wednesdays are our sort-of-different day because we do some once-a-w...