Archive for August, 2006
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 ….
Posted: Tuesday, August 8th, 2006 @ 12:47 pm in Transition Years | 1 Comment »
Great post on teens by Cajun Cay.
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 [...]