Tag Archives: homeschooling
Sid the Science Kid
PBS recently released this cute educational show for kids. Blazer has started watching it as part of his science curriculum and they do a fantastic job of relaying scientific ideas to their audience. I find the way it is structured, however quite fascinating. This particular show started off with Sid in his room where he …
Week in Review
We had a full week of school last week and I even got the house cleaned, thus I had no time to blog about our adventures. I’ll try to catch up now and keep on top of it for this week! Last Tuesday we had an ECHO meetup to read and discuss The Princess and …
Month In Review
We had a very successful first month of school and I am pleased with how almost everything has been going. The two areas I still need work are 1. getting preschool done with Racer and 2. keeping to my cleaning schedule. I am creating a daily “to-do” list that I make for every day. Papa …
Changes
My poor eldest child. Blazer is the son of an ADHD father and an ADD mother, which should mean that we are better equipped to handle him since we are “in the know”. Unfortunately, that is not the case. In January 2010, we hit a wall with him and were unable to get him to …
Reunions
I attended my 10 year high school reunion Saturday night. Yup, I am old! It was a fun night, with fun activities, and very well planned. I was stressing a bit beforehand because I know that our plans for our children do not include any high school reunions and I thought they would be missing …
And the Week Flies By…
I have some major updating to do about our school week. Before I know it Wednesday has arrived and I haven’t posted anything about what we’ve been doing. Monday we started new events in History (The Mycenaean Culture) and Linguistics (the words relieve, believe, conceive, either, field, thief, grief, wieners, neither, seize, conceived, shield, belief, being …
Doing It All
After last weeks posts the most common question I was asked by my readers was along the lines of “How do you do it all????” The short answer is: I don’t. The long answer is to work in shifts. Last week was a great school week. However, my house was a mess and I only …
Carnival
Whew! This morning has been crazy! We started off by completing another math lesson and reviewing for the Latin quiz tomorrow. Then I had to get 3 kids dressed, fed and ready to go for the End of Summer Carnival one of the moms from the ECHO group put together. I wish I had any …
My Little Artists
Today was fairly successful. While we weren’t finished by lunch, Blazer was more interested in our subjects as so we spent a little more time on each. Math was spent still working through Singapore. He is doing well with one lesson a day. We also finished the book How to Think Like a Scientist by …
Knossos & Wilbur
Today didn’t go nearly as smoothly as yesterday, which I blame on the crappy sleep I got last night! I put Miss C to bed at her usual time and then she woke up a few hours later. I brought her into bed with me, but Papa Bear (miracles of miracles!!) decided to sleep in …
