We are so excited to have begun our first week of our 2016 Academic Year! We have approximately 8 weeks of Ambleside Online Year 4 to complete. I hope to finish them in our first 6 week term. On Monday, we enjoyed our first-day shenanigans with a trip to Tim Horton’s for doughnuts and our…
Break week was necessary and fantastic. We relaxed some, we worked a great deal. On Monday, we watched the second to the last of the History Channel’s “The Ultimate Guide to the Presidents.” In general, I’ve found these to be balanced enough and pretty well done. We still talk about things. I like the earlier…
I feel like every week I tell you how crazy my week was. This week was, well, it was crazy. Shocking, I know. But I really mean it this time. GroveTime went well. We accomplished it all five days. Total win! We did not finish all the reading I had planned for the whole week…
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…
Four day weeks are so very long, aren’t they? Sometimes I think they feel longer than five day weeks. I was exhausted today, but we have started going non-stop, so that is probably why. I usually write Our Weekly Amble by subject area, but I thought it might be fun to do a day-to-day review….
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…
So, I did one of these posts about a month ago in July, then we went on vacation. We had a week of preparation, where we did some lessons, cleaned, and packed. We had the week of vacation itself, which was a wonderful time. We came home and had a pre-planned reset week where we…
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…
This week was odd. It started out wonderfully! We had a really good Monday, and accomplished everything we had planned. Including two science experiments about air pressure: water in a cup and a piece of paper and using suction cups. We also, finally, got to play outside a good portion of the day as the…