Winter Promise Wednesday: Aussie Style!
We are starting a brand new series called Winter Promise Wednesdays! We would LOVE to be able to show-off YOUR families using Winter Promise in your homeschool. Today we are blessed to have a guest post from Kendra, who blogs at the Aussie Pumpkin Patch! If you would like to guest post for the Winter Promise blog, please fill out this form and we will be in touch: Winter Promise Blogger Interest Form!
A few years ago I was in a bit of what’s known as homeschool burnout. We’d outgrown our trusty old curriculum & I wasn’t truly sure where to go next. After much searching, praying, & considering I stumbled, quite literally, upon Winter Promise.
{Invitation the boys made for our English Tea}


{boys working together photo}
As a family we read all the lovely spines, or main books, for Children Around The World & then my children set themselves up at our work table surrounded by the books they need to work on their notebooking pages. My older son is able to help his younger brother which is very sweet to see.
My children absolutely love the non-fiction books & it’s often a fight over who gets to pry through them first after I’ve read aloud from the daily sections. Who knew looking at toilets & televisions around the world would cause such a fuss! While I do read the read alouds to the both children as well, I do assign each child a book of their own, perhaps as an audio or one we read together, something at their own age level. It’s fun for everyone to share together what they’ve been reading about in relation to our studies.

WONDERFUL!
We’re looking forward to our first year of WinterPromise, beginning this fall. My kids are 7, 5, and 3, and we will be using American Story 1.
It’s great to hear from people who have “gone before” and have successfully used WinterPromise. I will have to check out Kendra’s blog.
Melissa, thanks for your comments! I’m so excited to hear more about how your year goes! I clicked over to your blog and noticed you mentioned it there too. I’d love to read more of your posts through the year if you share there about WP. 🙂 I love blogging and hope to share about our journey with Quest for the Ancient World on my blog too!
Is there supposed to be a space between “Winter” and “Promise,” or not? There seems to be a lack of consistency, even on WinterPromise (Winter Promise?)’s own web site….
Melissa, you are right! 🙂 I (Candace) recently started blogging/working for Winter Promise and I always put a space between them. I noticed that often Kaeryn (the author of WP) does not put a space. I actually have not asked her about this yet, keep forgetting and we always have a million other things to discuss. 🙂