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”…
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…
Back in the saddle. We’ve had a busy week for our final break week – but much of it has been done at home. On Monday, we watched football and were mostly slugs. Well, Jason and N-boy took the dog for a hike. And we took down the Christmas tree. But otherwise we were mostly…
Last week was the final week of our term. WooHoo! We finished strong. We walked almost every morning before school. We did Whatchamacallit every day. I’ve been very pleased with how it has been going. I love the three sections: devotions, academics, and beauty loop/read aloud. I think we’ve learned the parable of the Good…
Finally, I get to write about this week. phew. Three Weekly Ambles in one week is a lot. I’m glad to catch up, though. Monday was awful. Everything took so very long. Children were still doing lessons at 6:30. Jason was coming home after bedtime. I was frustrated and upset and just do your work…