I apologize for missing last week’s Wednesdays with Words. I was overwhelmed with words and unprepared to write them out and then it was suddenly Thursday. If you posted a WwW last week, please, please share it as well as todays post! I have another from my children’s reading. This is from the AOY6 book…
It was an odd week. We only did Whatchamacallit one time this week. On Monday, R-girl had an Orthodontist appointment (no more turning the key in her expander!) So, we did our the core subjects – Math, Reading, Penmanship, Latin, Reading – pretty consistently but Whatchamacallit went a little by the wayside. That frustrates me,…
It’s nice that it’s Saturday. We’ve had a week. Parts of it were good, parts of it were challenging. Just like any other week! I’m taking part in Brandy’s Charlotte Mason Boot Camp and at the end of the week I learned about “not prodding” the students – bribery, reminders, ahem, “Just do your work”…
One of the ironies of being a teacher is that one is supposed to instruct students who look at the teacher as an expert. Teachers are supposed to know. Be informed. Be prepared with an answer to a question. They’re also supposed to know the best way to instruct on any given subject matter. But…
This week started out with big challenges. Monday was such a difficult day. I think I posted something to the effect of, “The children have forgotten how to do school.” I had an attitude of “OK, we rested last week, let’s hit the ground running.” The children’s was more, hmmm, lackadasical would probably be the…
This week we finished the first six weeks of Academic Year 2017! It was a great six weeks. We managed to keep up with almost everything – except Kim. M-girl is doing well with her added work, although she is struggling a little with time management of it. She’s always been a little less, um,…
It was a weird week. Monday was a pretty solid day. We had sufficient work and the timing went pretty well. R-girl had an orthodontist appointment, so we didn’t do Whatchamacallit and the others were sending Google hangouts about their schoolwork: The olders had piano lessons while R-girl and I picked up our grocery order….
We had a lot of busy doings this week as we ambled together. This was Week 4 of Ambleside Online Year 5, Term 3. Because we had a big field trip Tuesday and Wednesday was off altogether, our three days had a large amount of work. Some days that was better than others. Monday was…
We had a pretty good week. Things weren’t as smooth as they were our first week – but frankly they never are. The first week, even though restarting routine has it’s challenges, they’re challenges everyone kind of wants to face. They’re starting back. They’re ready for days to be predictable again. The second week, it…
It was our first week back! [phew] We had a very productive week. A few struggles here and there, but when people are together all the time, you have to think they’ll rub each other wrongly from time to time. You just hope they don’t do so on purpose. Which, sadly, they do. So we…