This post is going to be long. I posted a screenshot of what I anticipate and hope our 2016 Circle Time to be on Instagram and was surprised by the immediate, specific, and detailed questions. (And I’ve already moved a couple of things around since then!) When I suggested that I could write a blog…
One of the assignments from the Read Aloud Revival‘s Master Class Focus and Align (available through membership) was to determine your overarching “this is what we do daily” Rule of Six. I’m still mulling, but here’s a first stab. It is based on my Words of the Year from 2015 and 2016 bookending the “Four Ws”…
A New Year should mean a new graphic, right? I loved the green in last year’s, but I think I’ll enjoy the blues for this year. Anyway, on with the show. We had a really good week of school. We accomplished quite a lot in our four days of formal lessons and enjoyed Friday fun….
This week has been so busy that I am having a hard time remembering Monday. [phew] We did our Couch to 5k on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. It has been perfect weather for it. We did GroveTime every day this week. We read sections from Ps 119 as well as Judges 7 about Gideon. We…
September?! Say it isn’t so! We had a good week. Most of the time. That’s the joy of writing a weekly review like this. The moments can be frustrating. Seriously frustrating. Our plans and idyllic imaginings can get derailed as we deal with the issues and frustrations of living and learning with the same people…
We had a week that improved as it went on. It started out rough, as it often does, and improved to Friday’s excellent day. Sometimes in homeschooling that groove is important. I was so thankful that I had done planned out the week for both Circle Time and the rest of our lessons. I want the…
As many of you who have followed our story know, we changed from straddling the fence between a WTM and Charlotte Mason style of education to CM-only, using the AmblesideOnline curriculum. It was a big change, and it was a good one. Because my children were older, I thought they could use some help seeing…
We did our first full week of school in months this week. All spring and summer so far it seems like a child has got some sort of vomiting sick, I got shingles, or the week was just crazy and we’d get one or two days of school in. One of the big negatives of…
One of the best things about AmblesideOnline is that we’re always reading amazing things. I marked quotes this week to add to my commonplace book from such diverse reading as Madam How and Lady Why; Poor Richard; and Trial and Triumph. I decided to select the passage from Trial and Triumph. It seems best to go…
My friend Heather asked me what worked in our first six weeks of the Big Changes we made for our Homeschool this year. So, this is a good time to think through the good and the bad; the challenges. Almost everything is good. I’ve posted an update each week in which I’ve gushed about how…