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?
Annie at Learning As We Go has written several super helpful posts. I’ve been forwarding them on Facebook, and folks with grown kids have mentioned how helpful they are, in addition to homeschooling, she’s a physician, married to anther physician. Continue reading Links for families suddenly homeschooling due to Corona Virus
I was beginning to organize the kids’ next year’s homeschool last week. The list I make for the superintendent helped my by bringing all the annual goals into one place, even with my wiggle language (hey, I might just change Continue reading Oh, wait, that’s a mixture problem
The Read-Aloud Revival podcast had a lot of great how-tos on it for homeschoolers using the public library. Our children’s Librarian is the one who put the final nail in my casket when she told me I should homeschool – Continue reading Using the library as a Homeschooler and my teeth still grind at the magic numbers people are using about homeschooling
No one here is great at transitions – except perhaps Dan. Dan’s busy season is summer (because engineers like to send products out for testing while they are on summer vacation, but Dan is the one testing things.) Market Basket Continue reading Still Plugging Away
So that is what pneumonia felt like. I can now read those novels with sick characters and understand it. I have laryngitis too. We have now had about a month off of school, minus little bits we got in after Continue reading I Didn’t Dodge the Pneumonia
I’m holding off on writing a “What didn’t work in 2016” post because I’m already feeling gloomy, I’m still digging out of flu chores, and I keep remembering things I could have added to the what did work post, which Continue reading Getting Organized for January
Pretty: On our Suburban Nomad Day, when I have the car and we do all the errands and outside classes, K found a beautiful fennel. She asked if she could make up a lunch around it, so I crossed off Continue reading {p,f,h,r} September, maybe some of August?
Ben had declared that the only speech he wanted at his graduation was grace for the food. But a diploma was important to Dan, so we ordered one. Despite having played in the band for the last 5 graduations at Continue reading Graduation Photos and the lists I used for college applications
Well, it hasn’t ALL been yelling and tears. I took M and K to the park first thing after breakfast to get my fresh air and exercise and make sure they did too – plus we passed a Dunkin Doughnuts Continue reading New School Year Growing Pains
Ben is reading the last 80 pages of Dracula right now, instead of doing his schoolwork, because, what is the point of homeschooling if you can’t finish a plot driven book before doing your trig once in a while? Who Continue reading Catch up on April Staycation photos and general status
Sometimes I get ‘company’ (and how to tips) from homeschoolers in books. Like the plucky governess in the Incorrigible children of Ashton Place books; or Galen’s father in Galen and the Gateway to Medicine (not that I condone owning a Continue reading Fellow Homeschoolers I’ve never met – real, imaginary or dead.
Some years I’ve started the homeschool year gently by doing one class a day beginning in late August but this year I had no plans to do so. I did put so many math picture books on reserve at the Continue reading Accidental Soft Start to Homeschool