FOR TODAY Monday, January 24, 2011… Outside my window… more snow is falling to the ground. I am thinking… about the second method from 10 Ways … more tomorrow. I am thankful for… Jesus and his love for us. From the learning rooms… I had to make M-girl stop reading Heidi during Circle Time ……
Some quotes to whet your appetite … It is more difficult to maneuver in history class. His mind leaps into the subject like a starving dog lunging at poisoned meat. He cannot be held back, even though he knows what they are feeding him. This new version of history is so different from what his…
Island of the World by Michael D. O’Brien My rating: 5 of 5 stars Borrowed from a Library. Hope to own. This book is beautiful beyond words. Painful, excruciating at times. But even there the words are beautiful. Joy, infinite joy. Sadness, deep sadness. It will make you think. I can’t review such a book….
She finished The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe this morning.
This week was mostly good. Wednesday, I was invited to a meeting, so we didn’t do any lessons. We made the individual work up today. That felt good, adding Circle Time would have been better. We had a little trouble getting started, not used to those early 7AM mornings, and some attitude issues to work…
When I was younger than seven, we lived in a house with a huge yard, with a few trees in one corner along a drain ditch glamourously referred to as a creek. Three of the trees had grown close together and we called them the “telephone tree” … this was when there were telephone booths. …
We’re carrying on with our read alouds … The Burgess Bird Book, The Mouse and the Motorcycle, The Jungle Book. We’re enjoying them, well two of them, we’re looking forward to finishing Burgess in the next week! So, no reviews this week, but I hope for some in the next!
N-boy shoveled a path down the sidewalk from the corner to the other neighbor’s driveway. He wanted to help the neighbors out. Yay, N-boy! Great work! M-girl shoveled a little too, can’t let her little brother show her up 😉 R-girl pulled some beach toys out and made a “snow castle.” I would have never…
Inspired last summer by the crazy long filing thread and in past years by By Sun and Candlelight’s File Crate System, I decided to set up files for our homeschool. At first, I thought I’d put everything in weekly folders. In other words, pages for everything into a folder marked “Week 1” and so on. …
