This was a pretty good week. We didn’t accomplish as much as I had hoped, but we did have some good things happen Circle Time continues to be a time of learning yet struggle. We did 4 days this week, taking Thursday off because we don’t do school on birthdays. We are still slowly working…
Mighty Acts Of God: A Family Bible Story Book by Starr Meade My rating: 4 of 5 stars Own. Probably should be 3.5 stars. We read this story Bible for family devotions. The stories were well selected and gathered. They were written at a level the children could understand without talking down to them. Sometimes…
Soooo … I suppose some of you might have been awaiting the rest of our schedule that I never posted weeks ago when I posted about our new year. Back in early January, I wrote about our Academic Year, our New Schedule and Circle Time. One major change to those posts is that we’re doing…
A Childs Geography Explore His Earth by Ann Voskamp My rating: 4 of 5 stars Own. We completed Ann Voskamp’s A Child’s Geography volume 1 last week. We weren’t very consistent reading it, and finished it in less than a year. There are only 11 chapters, with several divisions each, so a focused study could…
Memory Work for the week of … February 4, 2013 Bible: continuing in Philippians 2. Adding verses 12-13. Catechism/Creed: A new month and we switch to The Apostle’s Creed. M-girl continues her 4 page per day review, N-boy is working on the questions regarding Baptism, R-girl continues on the 3rd and 4th Commandments. Hymn: We’re…
FOR TODAY Outside my window… it was a dark and snowy night ….I am thinking… about seeing and perceiving.I am thankful… for my new little nephew!In the kitchen… we enjoyed pasta and eggplant for dinner. Thankful for Trader Joe’s frozen eggplant on a cold, snowy night.I am wearing… black sweatsuit and Buckeye shirt. And the…
Watches of the Night by Sally S. Wright My rating: 4 of 5 stars Own on Kindle. I started this one shortly after finishing Out of the Ruins. It took me a little longer than other reading as I got distracted by an Elisabeth Elliott book and my friend Mystie’s book at the same time….
Overall, we had a good week. We accomplished four days of Circle Time, which is my goal. We had two acceptable days, one awful day, and one great day of Circle Time. I’m trying to think through some changes we can make because I really don’t like awful days. We finished the “Motes in the…
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry My rating: 4 of 5 stars Borrowed from my mom. I think I read this 20 years ago when I was in high school. I did not understand any of it then. I borrowed it from my mom because she bought tickets for the two of us to…
Last week was both frustrating and good. Frustrating because we had some “we’re going to do this even if it takes all day” issues and good because we did get things accomplished. We did Circle Time five days. We finished Tina Packer’s The Tempest in our reading. We reviewed and sang and sat everyone on…