Posted in strategies, Milestones, Journal on Jan 31st, 2007 1 Comment »
Today is Kevin’s 45th birthday and also St John Bosco’s feast day. I was going to read to the kids a bit about this wonderful saint but so far not. Maybe I’ll get there. It’s not noon yet.
I am going to try something new; putting the academic bits in bold so they […]
Posted in Journal on Jan 30th, 2007 1 Comment »
Sean kept saying that today as according to the USPS website his birthday X Box football game is still stuck in Richmond CA. Sigh….
Last night:
Clare listened to Les Miserables.
The little ones played with letter puzzles for a very long time.
I read lots of stories to Paddy including Irish Legends for Children.
Kieron has read the […]
Posted in Big Picture, Journal on Jan 29th, 2007 1 Comment »
Yesterday we drove down south to visit Liam. This is a 500 mile round trip so it takes a bit out of us. Worth it though.
Family teamwork and conversation:comes into play as we keep little ones entertained during the travel hours, drive through snow and rain and ice, modify our plans because […]
Posted in recordkeeping, Milestones, Big Picture on Jan 26th, 2007 1 Comment »
I think I will start a tradition of saving Fridays for an assessment of the past week. Today was pretty much like all the other days in our week. Usually we have Homeschool Stations of the Cross but this month it hasn’t happened because of illnesses and weather. Once again that was true of this […]
Posted in Therapy on Jan 25th, 2007 No Comments »
Visit from Hawaii Elks OT, JL:
What Happened:
Wilbarger brushing and massage with lotion (for sensory integration)
Cranio Sacral Therapy – focusing on 4th ventricle to encourage CSF flow.
She showed me how to do this daily.
Trying to walk on pails…. neither Aidan nor Paddy could do this.
Bouncing on trampoline in squatted position — “being a frog”– easy for […]
Posted in Journal on Jan 25th, 2007 No Comments »
A day starts the evening before…. this was certainly true in our house. We all got to bed late except Clare and the little ones. Kevin and the boys were playing with the X Box; then Brendan went downstairs to his room and did something with Microsoft Word until 4 am. The little ones fell […]
Posted in Journal on Jan 24th, 2007 1 Comment »
Morning went as usual; I wrote about it in my other post today.
11 am
Went outside. The weather is a lot warmer and the snow is mostly melted on the southern exposure. The 4 younger boys ranged around our 2 acres enjoying the greenery (idea: focus on different sections at different times as the spring comes; […]
Posted in strategies, Journal on Jan 24th, 2007 No Comments »
I wanted to write down a few notes in a hurry before it leaves my mind.
I have been using Schuster’s Bible History and Guerber’s Story of the Romans with Kieron. Today we got to the second story. in the latter book.
I showed him a map of Italy in the big Historical Atlas. He thought that […]
Posted in organization, Journal on Jan 23rd, 2007 3 Comments »
I blew the Internet Regula right after I made it public…. sigh. That always seems to happen. Anyway, I spend a long time writing a post about unschooling on my other blog. IT did help clarify my thoughts but that’s also a good rationalization for spending EVERY day typing for an hour in […]
Posted in Journal on Jan 23rd, 2007 3 Comments »
8 am
I woke up and did my morning chores. It’s Monday so I do some extra picking up and putting away after the weekend (Sunday is a day of NO housework and it doesn’t take long to trash the place).
9 am
I worked on some high school plans for Clare who is a […]
