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?
When I was starting to think about homeschooling, I did NOT want to have a schedule, not that I don’t crave order or structure, it’s just that the most readily available books on homeschooling in my library were written by Continue reading Thoughts on our schedule
Last Fall when I read M The Chronicles of Narnia, I realized that CS Lewis gave me my love of parenthesis. When I read The Borrowers last month, I found the housekeeper character really creepy, and wondered that I had Continue reading On re-reading children’s literature
Henry Cate read an article that there are more girls than boys being homeschooled these days, and decided to do an informal survey to see if it is so. The comments section are interesting. He’d really like it if you Continue reading Nothing like finding out directly:
DH got all seven of the new shelves up! Now I have to (get to?) transfer and arrange the books from the old living room now workshop/study to the guest den. There are a lot of books. Susan Wise Bauer’s Continue reading My Books
On the drive to church yesterday, DH said that the colors of the buds were like an echo of the Fall, but with "eager green," visible too. This Morning K reassured me that the sounds out the window were, "Deh Continue reading More Signs of Spring in Earnest
OK, it’s time to stop day dreaming, get showered and start the teacher intensive school – B is doing his chores, K appears to be sleeping, and M is hosting a Bionical War in the bedroom, I hear lots of Continue reading If K is sleeping better, why am I so Foggy?
K is singing to me from her crib that she isn’t sleepy. That though she’s got a little fever, she isn’t sleepy, that she wants out. Her brothers are at a VBS right now, and I want to get things Continue reading What to do this morning
Robins coming out of the woods to my lawn Peepers singing in the vernal pools My boys begging to not wear coats (hats, mittens…) …then asking for cocoa Catalogs of pretty Spring cloths Mom bought K an Easter dress Continue reading Signs of Spring:
We are all healthy. We are back from visiting in NY. So I cracked the whip this morning and got all the teacher intensive stuff in before 11AM so we could go to the park. This afternoon B has been Continue reading Notes for a schooling almanac
We needed bar soap for hands last night, so DH asked me if I wanted the chance to be the errand adult, and I took it. I also added, that as long as I was going to the CVS, I’d Continue reading My solo trip to the CVS
Christine at the Thinking Mother has assembled a lot of resources and thought provoking questions, as usual. ADD link
How much time my kids spend with my DH!