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?
So that’s how to get M and K outside. Ben announced that all the strawberries from his garden were M and K’s to snack on today. K earnestly sought her shoes and did not tell me how much more interesting Continue reading So that’s how to get M and K outside
You know those late winter weeks when you soul itches, the kids keep getting stomach flus, but they beg to go to any chance to see their friends and catch more? When you stock up on clementines and make the Continue reading Where did Feb go?
Note: M tells me I got some of the details wrong. I was combining the stories of a few different words. We did 10 this morning. Me: How many syllables are in the word mother (holding my hand below my Continue reading SWR Dication – with lots of interruptions
Yesterday, I got so distracted by putting the beach stuff away, that I forgot to start M’s school in good time. Then the doorbell rang. The upstairs boys were already bored of playing, could M come outside? Then my laundry Continue reading Folding the Neighbor kids into Phonics Drill
I’ve started K on “Run around the clock” and “Glue the Sounds Together” games from Spell to Write and Read. She can glue the sounds into words, but oddly, she doesn’t hear initial consonants, just as she often omits initial Continue reading Progress Notes
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
B just finished list z in the W.I.S.E. guide, that means that in a few weeks when we start the school year over, we will be reviewing the foundations of hand writing, and eventually setting up his notebook. This part Continue reading Thinking Through my Fingers
One of today’s spelling dictation sentences in the W.I.S.E. guide was “Steam, ice and water, these three are one.” M said, “They are? Do you mean there is water in a boat?” I think he meant a steam boat. So Continue reading Oh yeah, the last time I did this, M was the baby…
I am not a natural speller. That puts it mildly! Even with spell check, if I don’t realize that I am using the wrong homophone, my productions look ditsy. I rely on my spell check and DH, although it is Continue reading Why I love SWR