My musings on our homeschool, coop, figuring out what my educational philosophy is anyway, and will I ever make curtains for the rest of the appartment?
Note: M tells me I got some of the details wrong. I was combining the stories of a few different words. We did 10 this morning. Me: How many syllables are in the word mother (holding my hand below my Continue reading SWR Dication – with lots of interruptions
Sometimes you practice the same tune for weeks. And your fingers don’t understand what the music notes mean. And you peek at your Mom’s fingers and loose your place in the music. For weeks. And she says dumb things like, Continue reading Celebrating a Recorder Breakthrough
K tried to persuade me at breakfast that she was dead, by answering every question with “I dead Momma.” We just read about the crucifiction this week in her Beginner’s Bible (I read on to the resurrection that night, I’m Continue reading Random Ambitions
Instructional Scope and Sequence for B: Bible B will be assigned portions of both the Old and New Testaments to read. Art B will work through several lessons from Feed My Sheep by Barry Stebbing. He may also take an Continue reading Scope and Sequence for B and M – if you are interested
“Mom, how come stirring things cools them down, if heat is motion?”
Yesterday I woke up before K did (that’s really, really unusual) and could not get back to sleep – I needed a brain dump. So I got a piece of scrap paper (I am more comfortable with junk paper for Continue reading Status
M really came into his own with lots of cousins to play with. His favorite game was “War” on the lawn, with improvised weaponry, but the boys closest in his age were great favorites for other things too Some days Continue reading Cousins at the family reunion in Canada
The Expo of the Senses had food to smell and taste, some craft tables to touch, whatever you call living sculptures to watch K and M decided that the war memorials were for climbing on. M got to see the Continue reading Expo of the Senses
“We homeschool; so we are flexible.” I say that when I want a doctor’s appointment quickly; when people wonder why B is doing his PE at the park, “during school hours,” when we are “still,” doing kitchen table school in Continue reading Not Mainstream, but feeling Eddies anyway
M noticed that it was blooming, I almost missed it since it is blooming lower down this year ( the new curtains required pruning the vine off of the old curtain rod where it had climbed to the ceiling) DH Continue reading Passionfruit Flower bloomed this Week