Well, for our homeschool. Perhaps one of the best known posts on my blog is Aligning your Academic Year with the Calendar Year. I’m really proud of that post and of the time we’ve been able to do just that – follow our own year and school year round. Unfortunately over the last year “school…
For Today… Looking out my window … it’s getting dark. I heard a rumble of thunder a bit ago – hope it cools things off overnight. I am thinking … about Mason’s three tools actually, I’m stewing about my son’s baseball game tonight and how adults ruin things for kids. I am thankful … that he’s…
It was our first week of a new year! Our first day we traditionally get something sweet for breakfast, but the weather was such that I didn’t want to go out, so Cinnamon Rolls and scrambled eggs it was: I realized this morning that we didn’t do our traditional self-portraits or interview pages. I’ll need…
Habits are hard y’all … It was the first week of our second to last term of the year. We have 2 weeks of Ambleside Online Year 6, Term 1 to finish before starting in on Term 2. I’d love to do all of Term 2 in the 4 and then 6 weeks (that’s 10,…
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,…