Hooray for M-girl!
She finished The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe this morning.
Weekly Report Week 2: 1/17/2011-1/21/2011
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…
Book Club: Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child : Keep them Inside
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. …
Read Aloud Thursday: Carry on …
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!
Love that child labor
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…
My New Organization System
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. …
MEP Math and Math Mammoth
I was asked elsewhere about “what’s that math program you use?” and “how do you use it?” and “you should blog about it.” Generally, I feel like such a neophyte that I’m loathe to tell others what or how I do something, but since I was asked … For our main math program we use…
Book Club: Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child : Why Truth is Your Enemy
I think Esolen’s premise is here to pretend to teach children something boring them in the process. Then, you won’t have to work so hard to bore them or teach them, because they’ll have already tuned you out. And I think schools often do this; not necessarily as intentionally as Esolen is describing. I was…
Weekly Report Week 1: 1/10/2011-1/14/2011
We had a really wonderful first week. Our Tuesday and Wednesday weren’t quite as wonderful as Monday, but they were still quite good for the first week back after break. We ended our week with a field trip to the Newport Aquarium and an overnight with Grammy and Grandpa. The Aquarium was nice and the…