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 passed my camera to one of our floating subs to take pictures of the activities, it’s fun to get photos from someone else’s perspective.At the two ends of the age spectrum, we have holding classes – B brings his Continue reading Last Friday, At Co-op
Usually when the socialization question comes up, the wrinkled forehead of my interrogator smooths out when I mention co-op. Rightly or wrongly! So far the kids have learned to raise their hands when they have a question (M tries raising Continue reading Socializing at Co-op
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about the co-op. We are getting smaller and younger these days, our middle schoolers tend to bring their independent work to do in study hall rather than take classes, or else they help Continue reading My Letter to Co-op this year
The organizer and we put out projects on the tables; one family we used to co-op with dropped by to visit. We ate lots of Girl Scout Cookies, M explored the chair stackes M told riddles when he wasn’t hiding Continue reading Small Expo
My right wrist is numb from mousing too much – (carpal tunnel) but all in a good cause: lots and lots of old photos are up at http://eagleswingscoop.org/pages/scrapbook.php
The first was the LIFE Christmas Crafting party where I was crafter, on December 5, I didn’t want this post to get lost in the archives, so it’s out of chronology. The children walked about between the tables, listened to Continue reading Two Christmas Parties in One Day
This Summer I was so excited to talk to grownups after resting at home from my foot surgery. Not that people weren’t around, the deaconesses and my family certainly visited, I was just thrilled to be at the LIFE meeting Continue reading Mother’s Night Out Party: Apple Themed
Miss M had my class enthralled: how do you point things out in the Philippines? With your lips if you are polite (at least in Luzon) Some money, stories about her students at Faith Academy, maps, weather maps of approaching Continue reading Geography with Miss M
We are up to the exciting day in the Bernie Zubrowski book, "Messing About with Drinking Straw Construction," when the kids make different walls out of straws and paper clips, (and carefully placed straight pins, placed by the grown ups) Continue reading Testing the walls
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
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