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?
Ever since B’s first year of homeschool, I’ve manned a table at the LIFE Group’s Christmas Crafting Fair. I’ve always bitten off more than I could chew, picked crafts that were too expensive, and gotten a headache. B was not Continue reading The Christmas Crafting Fair
When my friend posed this question on Facebook, I thought at first, whatever do you mean? The kids never go away, how can I spend more time with them? Then her meaning sank in, you can be physically with someone, Continue reading How do I spend time with the Children (and homeschool?)
A related question that occured to me more often was – how do I supervise the neighborhood kids playing in my courtyard while making dinner? (I think their mothers sent them all to me so they could make dinner). This Continue reading How do I cook, and homeschool?
Welcome to the Carnival of homeschooling. I’ve dug through my blog and photo archive to see what things were typically happening in our family in early December. Over a month since the change, and we were still not used to Continue reading The Carnival of Homeschooling: the Gingerbread Can Cure Poison Hour Edition.
The other day, I had a chance to sip coffee with just DH while my in-laws watched the kids in the other section of the bookstore. Only; each of the kids in turn needed something or other, and by the Continue reading How do I spend time with DH? (and Homeschool?)
DH and I have a have a lot of worship habits, mostly in a good way, not a mindless way – we keep a chronological Bible in the tea towel drawer handy for DH to grab and read a proverb Continue reading How do I spend time with God? (and homeschool)
I like research, and choices. When people ask me how to it, I don’t give instructions, I give options. I drive sequential learners (including M) nuts. So why am I giving advise? Umm… there was an interesting exchange on Facebook, Continue reading
This is the planned in bit of a week to plan the next chunk of homeschool and catch up on appointments and holidays things. So kitchen table work has been cut down to re-hearsing the stuff that must be maintained, Continue reading To Do, to do
Waking little kids up from naptime to pick up a sibling at school is hard. Tutoring your older child at home while your toddler plays play dough is hard (especially if they get bored easily and slip away quietly on Continue reading It’s All Hard – my new responce to “How can you Ever Manage it all…with Homeschooling?”
I asked M to play with K one morning so I could get cleaned up and dressed. When I returned to check on them, she was singing in the chair, and he was testing his pyramid. He didn’t have a Continue reading M’s Pyramid Trap
Yesterday we came home from Sunday School early, because M didn’t feel at all well, he was voluntarily sitting still too, so he wasn’t faking. Today he’s still off, and we are butting heads, I’m trying to remember why he’s Continue reading Today’s Homeschool
We are reviewing how to form numerals this week – next week we refresh cursive lower case letters, that takes longer. I got out our 10 sided die and the review sheet of numerals, and told M to write whichever Continue reading Temporary Cheerfulness about Handwriting Practice and organization strategies