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 re-read the website I set up a year or so ago to remember what I’ve said about the testing coop, looked through the g-mail account (sorry researcher, I didn’t read your note from last September until today, and we Continue reading Starting up the Testing Coop
Last week when it was still hot enough to want to wear long sleeves under a tee shirt, K asked for George Washington’s breakfast, as laid out in the picture book by Jean Fritz. Only I was out of cornmeal, so Continue reading Last week it was cold – not today
Since 2006, we’ve had a MySQL database that automatically makes our charts and helps us decide who is going to work in the nursery during set up and who will be the clean up chief. But brilliant Jacob who has Continue reading Eagle’s Wings Coop, we have a data base. (sorta)
Pastor Jim told my youth group, “Just say thank you when someone praises you. Don’t argue with them.” We were about to sing and perform a skit for Youth Night, the church smelled nicely of baked goods and coffee, everyone Continue reading Deciding to feel the gratitude
Eagle’s Wings had it’s first meeting for the 6-week-Spring semester. It’s 6 weeks long because historically that’s as much ambition as anyone has to teach other people’s kids this time of year – but this is an unusual year. There Continue reading Various Co-ops starting
Between Ben’s trip to visit Uncle Warren in Kentucky, the Family Fun Fair at church, recruiting families for M’s F.I.R.S.T. Lego League team, the car needing a new catalytic converter (Dan may have found a waver program for otherwise safe Continue reading {p,f,h,r} August was a blur
Halfway through the “Spring” co-op, it’s still too snowy outside to send the children out for recess. They are getting progressively louder and less demure during inside recess. But so far Pastor Ron has been able to work with us Continue reading I forgot that Friends don’t give Friend’s Children toys that beep
Some weeks my co-op kids have been bored – all 12 of them. One week the oldest children asked to be transferred to the economics class. But I have their attention now… My co-op Mathematics Topics class ranges from kindergarten Continue reading The Fascination of Dried Beans
K has been “off” all week, tired, cranky, sleepy. Friday morning at 8:58 as I was finding that one last thing before shouting “Go, go go!” as we loaded the car for co-op and Ben hummed the 11th Doctor’s theme Continue reading Everyone has a mild virus so I know school has started up again
One bite at a time. I got the Carnival up (that was actually fun, I need to hang out with old, pretty photos more often). Today I dug through what the co-op adult’s preferences were for ‘chores,’ and made initial Continue reading How do you eat an elephant?
We had our planning meeting last Thursday night. I typed the family info, class info, and who was teaching the classes into the co-op data base. I “scheduled” the children into the classes by squinting at their names, ages and Continue reading Co-op schedule bounces
M was the only 4th grader, so he wound up with a tutor for a proctor – a wonderful cheerful woman who appreciated that he was clever and creative – just that a kid who’s reading clicked in 3 months Continue reading Testing Week was Fun, but I’m glad it’s over