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?
I’d asked B to keep an eye on K while I took a shower. Sometimes this works better than other times. Friday was magic, I peeked into K’s room, and had to snap some pictures, Everyone was enjoying the library Continue reading How Good and Pleasant it is When Brothers Dwell together in Harmony
My across the street neighbor’s yard is full of reds and pinks right now. My gardent patch is a little straggly. Next year I want to use more dahlias. I know I need to prune the rosa rubifolia harder next Continue reading How to borrow this perspective?
I just gave a book talk yesterday, although I did use the globe to explain the problem of longitude for 16th century navigators in Longitude, Sea Clocks the story of Longitude, and threw in Carry on Mr Bowditch for good Continue reading Geography 4b
animal feed is just $.25, cheap entertainment The cow tongue was fast, again. "I am definitely washing my hands when we get home!" K loves the chickens. The sun is setting sooner than it had been. Ricky and Fred were Continue reading Oakdale Farm in October
K: "See Bubbles?" in bath, while pointing to my new bottle of lavender/chamomile body wash B: "The only good use for zuchini is in chocolate cake." Me: We can discuss the health care bill during break time, we have to Continue reading Recent Quotes
It’s Thursday, tomorrow I face about a dozen older homeschoolers, whose families have come to co-op when they could be doing lots of other things. And while I’ve been thinking and studying this week, I have not yet figured out Continue reading Phew, I have a theme, Installment 4a
I keep my copy of Operation World in a kitchen drawer near the microwave. I keep meaning to incorporate the daily pray around the world feature into morning prayer in homeschool, but first I need to get homeschool starting smoothly Continue reading Quizzes and Resourse Books, Geography Class Installment 3
I contacted most of the people I know who have traveled: missionaries, friends who have had interesting vacations, various in-laws who often host international students, business people from church, and a couple who have bicycled across most of Asia in Continue reading Guest Speakers for Geography Co-op Class, Installment 2
I’d love to report that I’ve found a perfect book for UPPER Grade students (I have 4th grade through 9th grade), and have an outline for the next half of co-op. But really, while I’ve come up with good stuff, Continue reading How is the Geograpy Co-op Class coming? installment 1
I have the key to the church. I am the co-ordinator. I sort of set the tone. It’s important that I set a good example…right? If we leave at 9AM, then we get to the church before 9:25AM, and while Continue reading Why we were 5 min late to Co-op this Friday
B’s flute teacher asked me if I would mind if he joined the middle school band (they only had one flute) and so I’ve been expecting her to let us know it was time. So today we planned to walk Continue reading We have Officially Become Band Parents