Posted in Poetry and the Arts, Literacy and Language, special needs, Journal on Apr 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
Since this has been an unschooly week I’ll just summarize the eclectic odds and ends we have been working on.
Art
Kieron is doing gif animations now. He downloaded a program to try and add music and sound effect midis to the “movie”. So now he is working on that […]
Posted in recordkeeping, strategies, organization on Apr 20th, 2007 4 Comments »
When I feel logistically disoriented, I make an organizing book. It really seems to help get me back on the ground. Around Christmas-time, I read a lot about Visual Spatial learners and learned a lot about the way I think. One thing that helped was realizing that […]
Posted in Literacy and Language, Early Childhood on Apr 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Aidan seems to be in a pattern of doing his literacy-activities in the evening. This is from an old activity book that he happened to come across (I picked up a folder and accidentally scattered the pieces, and he grabbed them)
Matching up the picture, you discover a word. He loved […]
Posted in Poetry and the Arts, Literacy and Language, Learning Notes, Journal on Apr 19th, 2007 2 Comments »
This is actually about Wednesday, which is confusing.
The little ones went on a literacy spree yesterday. We got the Handwriting without Tears catalog in the mail a couple of days ago and both Aidan and Paddy have been taking turns marking it up, tracing the sample pictures and having a lot […]
Posted in Nature on Apr 19th, 2007 1 Comment »
Yesterday, after I blogged here, I took the little ones outside for a nature walk. We have several routes — one is the “Pine Cone Place” walk, and one is the “Granite Ridge” walk. I am trying to put Nature on the front burner as we move towards spring. […]
Posted in Big Picture, Learning Notes, Journal on Apr 18th, 2007 No Comments »
I put up Aidan’s therapy list on a page. Just in case someone else has a child with hemiplegia and some sensory integration issues : ). I also put a planned daily warm-up routine in there… moving from large motor to fine motor to academics, hoping that motor activation will […]
Posted in Visual Spatial Learners on Apr 18th, 2007 4 Comments »
I was researching online for some help with some learning issues of one of my older kids. On LD online (a very good site) I found an ADHD checklist for girls. Interestingly, I could check off almost every symptom as applying to me. I would have been one of the Daydreamers.
“Girls of […]
Posted in organization, Plans and Ideas on Apr 17th, 2007 1 Comment »
Because thinking about it is better than just ignoring it completely.
Here’s a homeschool planning checklis: As Cozy as Spring plans.
Here are Knotty Pines’ Academy cleaning checklists:
Day One
Day Two
Day Three
Maybe now that I’ve put these on my blog, my house and homeschool will get organized by osmosis, and I can just read Hamlet — […]
Posted in Journal on Apr 16th, 2007 1 Comment »
After we have been off the academics, it takes a while to phase back in. I used to fret about this when I was first homeschooling, but now take the fact into account and plan for it.
Today the boys are going to do computer Latin and Math, and read their Faith and Life books.
We will […]
Posted in Plans and Ideas on Apr 15th, 2007 1 Comment »
Faith at Dumb Ox Academy is talking about planning for next year. She writes:
“I guess I have swung way to the diametrically opposed side of unschooling lately. I always seem to move in and out. But I have been obsessively planning for next year.”
This is what I do too, but my last planning immersion was […]
