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Archive for August, 2006

A Little Lost in Space

Posted: Thursday, August 31st, 2006 @ 11:48 pm in Big Picture, Plans and Ideas | 1 Comment »

Slowly the rhythms for this fall seem to be coming together. I tend to have a vision for the year but I plan seasonally — or if I do plan for the year, I end up scrapping most of it by the time the current season is waning. In the morning we focus on math [...]

Literature Theme Approach — old post

Posted: Tuesday, August 29th, 2006 @ 10:24 pm in Big Picture | 4 Comments »

(an old post I wrote about how to use a literature theme approach in a homeschool with more than one child). I think you CAN teach them the same topic if that works out. I taught two of my kids together for a long time until one of them starting feeling too competitive with the [...]

The Essentials

Posted: Tuesday, August 29th, 2006 @ 10:10 pm in Journal | Comments Off

As usual, I find out what I am thinking when I’m writing (so what am I doing when I’m just sitting around???) I wrote a post in response to a question about streamlining the homeschool curriculum and in doing so defined pretty much the essence of our homeschool, such as it is. Once Leonie sent [...]

Posted: Tuesday, August 29th, 2006 @ 11:07 am in Links | Comments Off

Rabbit Trails and Real Learning

Sunday and Monday

Posted: Tuesday, August 29th, 2006 @ 11:05 am in Journal, Plans and Ideas, special needs | Comments Off

At Saturday vigil mass I met up with someone whom I’d met before at the West Coast Catholic CM campout.   She and her family were up camping in this area with a church group and had not known we lived up here.   So on Sunday we went over to our local lake to [...]

This Week

Posted: Friday, August 25th, 2006 @ 2:36 pm in Journal | 1 Comment »

Sunday we brought Liam back to college. A long trip; takes 10 hours in all, so we didn’t get back until 12 hours after we left. Monday was a quiet day….. recovering. Tuesday, Sean was really sick with a fever and chills and aches. Wednesday, Aidan had his physical therapy appointment in town, so we [...]

The Seven Saboteurs

Posted: Thursday, August 24th, 2006 @ 7:25 pm in Big Picture, Thinking about Learning | 2 Comments »

Here are the Seven Saboteurs of my Seven Habits for Effective Homeschooling. (anyone seen the Seven Samurai? It’s a family favorite) I thought I would post them here to remind me where I usually fall off the wagon. I don’t do these all every day, or rarely! and once in a while one or two [...]

Where Do You Find the Time?

Posted: Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006 @ 2:59 am in Links | 2 Comments »

Good reminder for me from Mental Multivitamin. HT:  Cindy of DominionFamily Speaking of finding time, if you have happened to wonder why I haven’t been blogging ….

Those Teens

Posted: Tuesday, August 8th, 2006 @ 12:47 pm in Transition Years | 1 Comment »

Great post on teens by Cajun Cay.

Movies and Music and Miscellaneous

Posted: Monday, August 7th, 2006 @ 9:52 pm in Journal, Living and learning, Plans and Ideas | Comments Off

I have gotten behind on updating my journal here. Partly it is because our days seem to follow a fairly predictable pattern, so I was finding myself writing the same sorts of things again and again. I think in future, unless we get into a very different pattern of life, I’ll focus more on the [...]