Today was Aidan’s last speech session. Kevin drove us down to the school because he was getting worried about how worn down the brakes are — bless him : ). Aidan played a 4-step Sequencing game. It was the SLP’s last day at the school and she was a bit off her focus. We both [...]
I spent most of the day on decluttering projects. The middle boys did their Wednesday work. Tuesday, since I was gone all day, they didn’t do any formal academics. Monday they got to take one subject off their list since it was Memorial Day. I put their spring to summer checklist on the sidebar because [...]
When we drive all day, as we did today, it knocks me out for hours afterwards. I think it was in one of Raymond Moore’s books that I read that riding in a car upsets some peoples’ vestibular systems — even if they don’t get carsick, they often have impaired concentration for some time afterwards. [...]
I missed you, my little homeschool journal! Thank you, Ron and Andrea, for restoring the HSJ system on top of everything else going on in your lives. Lots has been happening here in the high Sierra spring. Nothing major, just many little sparkles on the surface of the stream. But I will have to update [...]
I kept a few notes while HSJ was down, and am adding them now with an edited timestamp just to have them all in the same place. Playing games: Swap, Hit the Deck, Robot Rally. Evenings have been particularly nice: pattern of cleaning up, playing board or card games, kids playing musical instruments, then get [...]
Aidan was so focused at speech therapy today. He did a categorization game with magnets — food, animals, transportation, clothes, and home. The SLP phased really gracefully from giving him choices between two categories — is the apple a food or an animal? — towards letting him pick them out himself as he got to [...]
In spite of the philosophical sounding title this is not philosophical, just a collection of a few unschooling-type things that have been happening around here. But I almost want to save the title for a post where I might actually tie those things together : ). I’ll leave it there to remind me, for now. [...]
I am trying to move into project mode for summer. Today I went through the big box of papers — schoolwork, internet print-outs, notebooks and so on — which I normally keep in a big box under my office table. It took most of the morning, while I sat with the teens and listened to [...]
Yesterday Clare got two versions of Jane Eyre on DVD. The Orson Welles one came from Amazon, and the 2006 version came from the library. So she watched both in sequence… interesting to compare and contrast. She was taking it easy yesterday because the next few days are going to be very busy with her [...]
Liam smashed me at chess yesterday. Usually he wins, but we fight it out to a couple of bedraggled pawns and maybe a rook or bishop. This time he checkmated me unexpectedly right in the middle of the game. Sigh… Then we started a game of Monopoly. The neat thing about life nowadays is that [...]
