by Britt Kelly | Jan 15, 2015 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home, Hobbies
About thirty years ago I was in High School Freshman English Class. We were very much 14. We thought we were amazingly creative and funny giving our teacher blue toilet paper when we had discovered her birthday was coming up and her new bathroom was blue. We were...
by Britt Kelly | Jan 8, 2015 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home
I always struggle when I try to explain our homeschool. It’s child-led…kind of. I spend a great deal of time inspiring and setting an atmosphere of learning. I don’t really have a fixed schedule but we do have a rhythm or pattern to our days. We don’t have set...
by Britt Kelly | Jan 1, 2015 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home
Long, long ago I lived in a place where it regularly snowed each winter. I don’t know what I was thinking. I’m not a big fan of cold. I must really love my husband. Anyway, one winter it had snowed and thawed and snowed and thawed repeatedly and in all of that time we...
by Britt Kelly | Dec 18, 2014 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home
We found an apartment together. We bought furniture and moved in our things. We went to the temple with all of our family, knelt across the altar and it was the most amazing kiss I ever had. There was a reception and dance and hugs and the blessings from our fathers...
by Britt Kelly | Dec 11, 2014 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home
Seventy-three years ago my mom was standing in the front room of her home looking out the window. Her mom, my grandma, was 6 months pregnant. She remembers seeing planes fly by close enough that she could see the Japanese pilots. My mom was too young to remember much...
by Britt Kelly | Dec 4, 2014 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home
Many years ago our family arrived at my brother’s for Christmas. As a part of a cousin gift exchange we handed one of his children a gift. The child said thank you and tossed the still wrapped gift on the couch and ran off. I didn’t think much about it, because the...
