This coming week begins our Yuletide Session 2011. I’m always very excited for the start of a new season. Last year I explained our rationale for Yuletide Session, how it fits in educational plan. A lot of what we did last year is what we’re going to do this year, same poem, same carols, similar…
R-girl has done very well in the last year. She’s learning about doing lessons and how the schedule works. She definitely wants her “turn with Mommy” and gets upset when she doesn’t get her individual lessons. She has gone from dreading her phonics lesson to it being easy and liking it. She loved her…
N-boy had a wonderful year! He, too, improved in his skill areas at a great rate. I’m very pleased with his seemingly natural understanding of math and his reading prowess. N-boy, also, gets frustrated if he doesn’t learn easily, but his frustration is much more physical. We are working on it. He works pretty well…
FOR TODAY November 21, 2011 …Outside my window… cold, grey, and rainy. I am thinking… about pastor’s sermon yesterday discussing the ordinariness in the Christian faith. I am thankful… for a wonderful church where the gospel is preached. From the learning rooms… nothing. We’re on break this week! In the kitchen… that’s a very very…
M-girl had a great year! She improved in every skill area. While my curricular choices don’t tend toward the flashy, I’ve been pleased by their effectiveness. In particular, M-girl’s writing, both in legibility and thought, are cleaner and more beautiful. M-girl is very bright and gets easily frustrated at even a little bit of difficulty. …
We had a good year. I’m pleased with the advancement in knowledge and skills the children made. I’m disappointed in my own inconsistencies because I think we could have easily gotten further. I, particularly, wish we had gotten through more of the content areas of Bible, history, and science. All in all, though, I’m content…
We’re done! We’re done, we’re done, we’re done, we’re done! Did I mention we’re done for the year? Yippee! Now for Yuletide Session. I’m planning on a year end wrap up and a Yuletide Session 2011 psot. Phonics: R-girl: learned about to, too, and two today. NB: (we’ll keep working on phonics with her over…
FOR TODAYMonday, November 14, 2011… Outside my window… cold, rainy, I think I heard some sleet (ETA Jason tells me it’s 60 and I can’t have heard sleet … but maybe it was hail instead, I know I heard something more solid than rain). I am thinking… it can’t be our last week of “school”…
We had a good, exhausting week. Sorry no pictures; our camera died and I didn’t take any on the phone this week. Phonics: R-girl: has worked through Lesson 73. She’s working on long /o/ words. Assigned Reading: M-girl: has read more Pilgrim Stories. N-boy: seems to be enjoying The Landing of the Pilgrims, now. Math:…
Lady of Quality by Georgette Heyer My rating: 4 of 5 stars Own. I picked this up at the library book sale and it was just the thing to read after the heavy-reading Lord of the Rings books. A light, witty, quick read with a happy ending for all involved and not a lot of…