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 just finished ‘mining’ this blog for entries in M and B’s portfolios for the superintendent (actually, B’s is mostly a place to put his essays and drawings, I’ll turn in his standardized test). I didn’t make as many notes Continue reading Mining Done
This morning at breakfast, the boys and I were comparing and contrasting knit and crochet, machine knitting and hand knitting ( I taught them the chain stitch yesterday, and this morning M made one that was as tall as he Continue reading Surely There’s a Way…
The next Swallows and Amazons book has not come in at the library yet: so M and I have been reading shorter books, and magazines. When he chooses books, they tend to be non-fiction. We’ve been on a hippo jag, Continue reading Following M, or trying to
Yesterday, as we got ready to go to the fire station for a tour, I told the boys to put their shoes on. A few minutes later, I gave them charge of K, and took a shower. Once I was Continue reading Where are your SHOES!?
B, during Grammar Recitation said, "That sentence is an imperative one, Imperative, it evolves from the Latin Imperator." in his best Pokedex voice.
The Well Trained Mind Blog is starting a three part guest series on dysgraphia. – The student she is describing sounds like me. And my boys, K isn’t old enough to loose her temper over writing yet, she looses it Continue reading If you also have a pencil throw-er
So, how is it going? Well… B’s independent work is going swimmingly. Especially music. And he is co-oping great (just forgetting to let me know what supplies I need to buy for him before we get there, but that’s normal, Continue reading Oh Yeah, This is a Homeschool Blog…
B with his new pocket chart for organizing his independent work. I used one of Cathy Zielski’s tricks; cut a 12×12 piece of cardstock to a 12×8.5 inches – then it fits through the printer. If I cut 3×5 note Continue reading 5th Iteration of Independent Work Organizational System
B’s Summer Band is playing a medley of Celtic songs. To help him learn the music, I searched for performances on U-Tube. (It’s just so much easier to learn sheet music if you’ve heard the tune before!) Our favorite version Continue reading Orthodox Celts
I was supposed to bring B to his flute lesson at 9AM yesterday, I did remember to bring him on Tuesday, but I showed up at our regular time of 4PM. And what did the calender say when I got Continue reading Frustration and Finishing
1: How do you do baby girl’s hair? K almost has enough to fall into her eyes, she snatches off hats, will she pull out her hair when it’s time for barettes? 2: How do you find time to read Continue reading Two questions for the homeschooling Blogasphere:
I wrote this recently on a thread in the wonderful Spell to Write and Read discussion groupon Yahoo! and was rather pleased with it. The ironic thing is that today M has been in front of the TV for I Continue reading Occupying 2 and 4 year olds