Today turned out to be mostly unschooling. Spring is here, and it’s hard to focus on the books. Sean did two lessons of math, which brings him up to Book 8′s review and then the test. Then he is done with Key to Algebra (there IS a book 9 and 10 but they aren’t worth [...]
Sean: He did another page and a half of Algebra. He is almost done with book 8, then he gets a couple of weeks’ break from math, then we will decide what to do after that. Latin — read the Introduction of Henle Latin 1, then I tried to explain declensions to him, without much [...]
AH, this day could have almost been a normal day, except that the house is trashed and I am sitting around more than I usually do. But I got the eye patch off and the headaches and vertigo are diminishing. I made pancakes this morning, and then worked on math with Sean. Then he did: [...]
To plan for next year, that is. Y’know, that was the part I missed absolutely the MOST when I was trying my total unschooling last spring. I really missed the planning This year, I realize I could have planned even as a complete total unschooler. Why not? Except that all [...]
Another quick, simple work day. It has snowed continuously since last night — who would’ve thought? Feels like we’re back in January! So Aidan and Paddy’s first T ball practice was cancelled, obviously, which worked out OK. My eye feels better but I still can’t walk around much and develop a headache and blurred [...]
I was going to title Monday’s log “It’s my blog and I can whine if I want to: )” But I was too disheartened even to drag myself to the keyboard to whine : (. On Saturday night Paddy somehow managed to jam his thumb into my eye while I was trying to move [...]
I wrote several posts with notes on Mel Levine’s Myth of Laziness on my other blog. I’m going to list them here because I thought it might be of interest to some of the homeschooljournal community too. The Myth of Laziness Writing difficulties Project Checklists When I wrote about Laziness once before on here, I [...]
Quick catch-up: Our friends left today. Thursday: While Kevin and I drove to TAC to pick up the 3 prospective college students on Thursday, our middle boys stayed with their friends and watched a couple more hours of Liberty. WE got back pretty late — got to see Liam and the 3 young people [...]
This week has been different from others since we have visitors staying with us this week. Clare is visiting her older brother’s college with a couple of friends, and their family is staying with us. Sunday we took them to the college. Monday the kids mostly played. I had Sean do math, Latin and [...]
This was basically an unschooling day, meaning that it was a day so packed with informal learning that we didn’t have time to break out the regular books. Sean and Kieron have just recently registered on a bionicle message board where their older brother is also a member. This has led to all kinds of [...]
