I’ve tried many different scheduling approaches for our homeschool planning. After more than 10 years homeschooling, I haven’t found a system that sticks. Some have worked well for a year, or a month… but then the look of our school day changes, and my schedule falls by the wayside. The chalkboard of ultimate power sprung [...]
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Our studies with Sonlight Core 2 have taken us to the fascinating history of the Vikings. We read about the vikings in A Child’s History of the World. We then took paint to paper and followed the Vikings adventures, starting with the Viking homelands. This is Amie’s Viking settlements map. We read more about Viking [...]
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Last week, the Home crew grew crystals from borax soap. Borax soap-as in laundry detergent, just check the laundry aisle…it’s a powder. This project was instigated through our Classical Conversations group, I am a tutor this year for master’s class. I admit, if I didn’t have to do this for the class, I most likely [...]
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Heart Stress-Test describes the jumpings and flutterings my heart muscle did as I watched my youngest 2 race around this empty pool at the skateboard park. They raced, several times. I don’t know why. -watched from far away, on a balcony. Too far to shout to them. too far to shout or get their attention. [...]
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A peek at our Homeschool Week that was…-part 3 of a post that began here* with Monday & Tuesday Friday began with Sky dropping Meg off at the Stables on his way to work. I then picked her up a little after 10 a.m. We had a late start in our homeschool day, we started [...]
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A peek at our Homeschool week that was-2nd part of a post that began *Here with Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday began with Josie, Amie and Demi-Sky writing persuasive essays that they had begun on Tuesday with a pre-writing exercise. Amie was assigned a persuasive letter, instead of an essay. This project took about 45 minutes [...]
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A peek at our homeschool week that was… Monday found us very busy, our first day back-to-homeschool since our winter-holiday break. I started the day with a walk/run, and then had the kids dive enthusiastically into the meaty part of our studies. We started the morning off with a Bible reading, then table work for [...]
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