Nicole Chryst
Wellness Educator
Chasing truth, beauty, goodness, and all things naturally wholistic.
Faith over fear.
Ephesians 2:8-10
I’ve been married to my high school sweetheart since 2003. Together, we have four amazing children, by birth and adoption. When I am not homeschooling my favorite students, I spend my days on our 7-acre property where I try my best to love my family well and experiment with hobby homesteading. My favorite things to do are cultivate my ever-expanding gardens, wrangle chickens, ferment all the things, sourdough bake with einkorn flour, and figure out new ways to use herbal remedies and essential oils. I believe God has tasked us to be good stewards of our spaces in the world, and I guide my children to do the same.
I am a board member of The Sparrow Fund and an Empowered to Connect Facilitator. I love to dig in the dirt, cook nourishing food, capture beauty through my camera lens, watch the sunrise on the beach, and spend time with good literature on my porch while sipping on a hot cup of coffee.
We had our first day of homeschool on Monday! We started off with our first community day at Bridges, the new classical group that we spent the last half of the summer planning. It went so well that all of the children have been talking about it non-stop. They cannot wait to go back! We...
During homeschool planning this week, I updated my original Jenga Memory Review Game to be more flexible. It’s been one of my most popular blog posts, bur the game doesn’t always work the way I had set it up before. It’ll now work for memory review, no matter how many weeks we are into the...
As I continue prepping for the new school year, I wanted to have a few new memory review games in my bag of tricks. I’ll be introducing the new memory work each week during community day, so I’m hoping this Twister review game will be a hit! I was going for vestibular sensory input with...
Another tiny curve ball got thrown into my homeschool planning – we decided to switch memory work cycles a month and a half before our first day. Crazy I know, but it made the most sense for the group. Fortunately I hadn’t gotten very far into planning Cycle 1, but that did mean I needed...
Switching homeschool paths in the middle of the summer means my planning changes a little too. I’m always up for a challenge though! The new Claritas Cycle 1 memory work has some overlaps with Classical Conversations, but it’s different enough that I wanted to create a new reading list for the school year. I kept...
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