Posted in Journal on Mar 15th, 2007 1 Comment »
Sean:
Math — rise over run clicked and now he’s zipping again.
Latin — Quia
A catechism worksheet on the Apostles Creed.
Greek
Ways of the Wood Folk
Drew a picture of a Morganser (he was telling me that it was hard to narrate a sort of meandering natural history book like the one above and I thought he had […]
Posted in Therapy, special needs on Mar 15th, 2007 No Comments »
Here are the notes for what Aidan did with the OT today:
First, I had him show her the page with the traced C’s from the Jan Brett site. This was because I had to call him down from upstairs when she came and I sensed he was going to be reluctant, so I wanted to […]
Posted in Journal on Mar 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Aidan really liked these Jan Brett alphabet handwriting pages — I printed out the cat one today and he filled the whole page with traced C’s. A milestone! — he can trace all by himself and hold the pen correctly. I have to keep noticing these little progress points!
It was one of those friction days […]
Posted in Journal on Mar 14th, 2007 No Comments »
I did not sleep well last night, after some medical blog-surfing. We had an appointment for Aidan in town. So after the discussion about transitioning this weekend, I decided that today would be an unschooling day for Kieron, and that I’d try Sean on choosing his own work to see what would happen. […]
Posted in Transition Years, Journal on Mar 12th, 2007 1 Comment »
We slept in a bit today due to the Daylight Savings Time change yesterday.
9 am I made rolls, started a fire, and some laundry while everyone else got their morning routine done (hmm, looks like the dishwasher isn’t unloaded yet though : (). SEan started his weekly jobs. Looks like Kieron still doesn’t have his […]
Posted in Visual Spatial Learners, Big Picture, Transition Years on Mar 11th, 2007 7 Comments »
Cindy at Applestars asked about how my kids and I managed ownership in the middle years. She writes:
At about 11, when my children start to do more formal things, they learn to be in charge themselves . . . by about 13, they are doing well without any oversight or assignments from me . […]
Posted in Plans and Ideas on Mar 10th, 2007 1 Comment »
Religion:– has been going pretty well
8th grade — Our Life in the Church
read chapter 17 — topics
Seven Capital Sins
Seven Holy Virtues
Spiritual and Corporal Works of Mercy
Discuss Counsels of Perfection
5th grade: Credo I Believe
Describe the picture (it is by Giotto — his bio is in Knights of Art) –what does it show?
review mortal vs venial sins
Work […]
Posted in Journal on Mar 10th, 2007 1 Comment »
Paddy is really changing these days. We have noticed that he and Aidan are able to play much better together nowadays. At homeschool Stations of the Cross, he can go off and play with the other little ones his age for a couple of hours without needing to come and […]
Posted in Therapy, Early Childhood, Milestones, special needs, Journal on Mar 9th, 2007 2 Comments »
I wrote out a post for today and lost it… sigh. It’s Lent, I guess!
I’m not going to write the whole thing out again, just summarize…
Today was a light day as far as academics. Math and Latin were online drills. Sean finished the copywork and outlining activity he didn’t […]
Posted in Poetry and the Arts, Journal on Mar 7th, 2007 No Comments »
Sean:
Math
Ways of the Woodland Folk
History of English Literature
Landscape with Dragons (we don’t agree with all of O’Brien’s thesis about “gnosticism” and some of the books and movies that he pans are favorites of ours but the book raises interesting questions which I think are appropriate for children at the middle-school/high school age to ponder - […]
