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?
Dan took the little kids to the zoo yesterday so I could finish organising myself. I have set aside the books I need, written two die cut lists of things I need to do everyday with M, attached them to Continue reading First Day of School
Organise me: sounds like a pastry Alice should have found in Wonderland. I have tidied my cabinets, ordered curricula, written my long term goals for the year, today is the “organise one sixth,” day. But I feel like I’m forgetting Continue reading Organise Me
Jimmie’s Collage just posted about Balancing the Good and the Bad on your Homeschool Blog ending with the question If you are a homeschool blogger, how do you ride this line between being too rosy and being too negative? I Continue reading What to blog about…What to share about homeschooling
My family finished up last year’s homeschool two weeks ago. Saturday was the Family Fun Fair at church, and a week ago yesterday the kids and I started organising the house. I have all my homeschool paper work filed with Continue reading Carnival of Homeschooling, the Tell Me Summer isn’t Almost Over Edition
It was such a festive weekend; my In laws drove up from New York and my Cousin Ben came down from Cambridge. The boys had enough energetic extra grown-ups available to play games with them, and K got lots of Continue reading Organizing Day
B just gave me his weekly recitation – what concepts he studied in pre-algebra, his art project, a summary of the history he read, the story he wrote, his grammar exercises. When we had the cards for his pocket chart, Continue reading Checklist – the way to go for us … for now
Today I let the kids watch videos and vege while I wrote out our educational goals for this month and put as many books as the library would allow on reserve on my card. Coffee break here – I just Continue reading In Service Day
Biography “Seeker of Knowledge,” by James Rumford Poetry Selections from Amblside Online Non-Fiction “The Magic School Bus Shows and Tells,” by Jackie Posner “It’s Disgusting and we ate it,” by James Solheim “Beneath the streets of Boston,” by Continue reading What I’ve read aloud since last September
It took me a little longer to clean K up than I thought it would, so when I returned to the porch for school, my boys had turned into gargoyles. The nice thing about having your children turned into stone, Continue reading Gargoyles
Pretty I love the tulips with the emerging peony stalks. Happy B successfully potted on his seedlings. K drew her first symbolically representational face – it’s a dinosaur with hair and a happy face. It took me 9 shots to Continue reading Pretty, Happy, Funny, Real
In the last month, we have had a sickness that took 2 weeks to leave us, and a vacation. The kids had more free time than usual, and I was pleased with how they chose to use it. B got Continue reading Pleased with the Bunny Trails
I handed the “Thinking Toolbox” to B to read to M, I was charmed when I returned from the bathroom. I know that M is supposed to be to young for this, but he can point out logical fallacies in Continue reading And they were still Behaving after my Break