Welcome to the School Starts on Monday Edition of my Weekly Reports for 2015! It is my goal to put together a report of our schooling every Friday afternoon when we’ve done a week of school. Because we have major changes in our homeschool for the 2015 Academic Year, I’m going to post today first,…
December is usually a busy time and I generally have big plans for our Yuletide Session (2010, 2011, 2013). This year we do not. We’re still doing extra activities as we desire, but no memory work, no Circle Time, no assigned anything. We all need a break. That’s not entirely true. M-girl is participating in…
One of my overarching reasons for blogging is to track our homeschool successes (and failures). I have been a bit lax in the last few weeks, not getting to the computer to spend the time to think through what we’ve been doing and what we ought to be doing. This will be a general update….
Last week was interesting. It was not the best week ever, but we got a good deal done. It wasn’t the worst week ever either. I have one child who is trying out the procrastination and avoidance technique when it comes to doing their assignments. I need to get on top of that. I have…
Our second week had its ups and downs. We had a rough beginning and middle, but the end was much improved. We had the best Circle Times we’ve ever had, right at an hour of work. We accomplished a lot of work, but did we accomplish the best work? I’ve been thinking about Brandy’s post…
This has been a “get back to it” week. We’ve been “doing school” somewhat regularly all summer, a minimum amount – read, write, math, Latin, piano. Done. Go play outside. This week, we added a regular wake up and start time back in. At least the first three days. I got the kids up about…