When we started homeschooling in the fall, I researched lot of ways to manage all my kiddos and their tasks (from workboxes to software). Because we only have to keep a portfolio (not grades or attendance), many of the available free planning websites and softwares were too detail oriented for us. I had been sitting...
I was recently invited to review two audio workshops given by Susan Evans. Making Literature Fun From Susan’s website… “This one-hour audio workshop, delivered by a former English literature teacher, will give you seven practical ideas for making literature come to life in your homeschool. 39 classic works of literature are mentioned specifically, along with...
With all the sunshine today, we took the opportunity to build 2 more raised beds, prune the grapes, thin the garlic (it came back from last year), transplant the everbearing strawberries, and plant a bed of onions.
‘Tis the season to start thinking about next year–co-ops, curriculums, field trips, OH MY! Lately, it seems that every other conversation I have is about Classical Conversations. There seem to be some re-occurring questions. I’m hoping to address some of them here but feel free to comment and ask your own. Because my experience is only...
PJ decided early this year that he was up for Memory Masters. He has an amazing memory. Because we do all of our memory work to music, he has it all up in his head but sometimes needs a couple notes to recall it. Unfortunately, he won’t get those cues for proofing so we’ve started...
I love when I can kill two birds with one stone. The other day we were able to knock out lunch and chemistry simultaneously by building atomic models out of pancakes. We’ve been memorizing some parts of an atom (nucleus, proton, electron, quark, lepton, and neutron). For our models, we just focused on the nucleus...
To our other home school friends, we often talk about our “co-op” just because “CC” isn’t a universal term. But, in reality, CC isn’t a co-op at all and here’s why: Classes are divided by age group and all classes are covering the same material. This may look slightly different depending on the age group...
If you haven’t done so, I highly recommend reading whatever you read before your child came home again…after the fact. We’re in the middle of 7 weeks of homework for an upcoming training and I just reread a book that I’ve always believed in, The Connected Child: Bring hope and healing to your adoptive family....