Posted in Early Childhood, strategies, Big Picture, Journal on Mar 6th, 2007 No Comments »
I woke up quite a bit early today and since Aidan was up right afterwards, it gave me a chance to have some quiet time with him. This was nice because his 4yo brother is neck and neck with him developmentally and always wants to be in on what we are doing academically, and that […]
Posted in Big Picture, Journal on Feb 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
Quick run-down on the week:
Kieron:
Saxon 65 lessons 33-38
Latin Quia daily
Bible History chapters 11-12-13 - Abraham
Credo I Believe chapter 12
Catechism discussion
1st 2 chapters of St John Bosco
Story of the Romans chapter 2 and 3 — narration
Seabird: Chapter 1.
Free Reading: Prince of Ireland’s Son, How to Eat Fried Worms, Hardy Boys and Voyage of […]
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 strategies, organization, Big Picture, Journal on Jan 18th, 2007 2 Comments »
I have been experimenting with visual/spatial type charts to see if they are effective tools for my right brained learners. I just made another chart for my 11 and 13yo boys. The one I made for Aidan has really helped him. Y’know, I never actually presented it to him. […]
Posted in Big Picture, Plans and Ideas on Jan 14th, 2007 2 Comments »
I guess I’m not the only one who thinks about revising the daily routine in January.
Here’s Faith at Dumb Ox Academy’s schedule plans.
Here’s Woodstone Prairie’s
Here’s a typical day of mine from May. And here’s one from June. Guess it’s been a while since I wrote one of those!
The basic plan […]
Posted in Therapy, Early Childhood, strategies, Big Picture, Journal on Jan 11th, 2007 1 Comment »
We woke up today and it was cold and foggy outside. By now it’s snowing and tonight it’s supposed to drop to about 6 degrees. Quite honestly, we all rather love these weather changes when we feel a bit like a frontier family in our log house, with our wood stove. Since the water heater […]
Posted in Big Picture, Journal on Jan 3rd, 2007 2 Comments »
Yesterday was simply a good day, a nice flowing day like a tapestry of bright colors picked out with gold.
Kieron made a sword. A few years ago the kids found a lot of discarded wooden pickets from a construction site near our area. These have been wonderful sword material. You […]
Posted in Big Picture on Dec 6th, 2006 4 Comments »
Still thinking about notebooks …. in an earlier post, I wrote:
I would like to start them (the kids) on a bit of very relaxed notebooking — after reading Cindy Rushton’s book and looking through my closet with the older kids’ notebooks and other bits of memorabilia. We never did it in a […]
Posted in Thinking about Learning, Big Picture on Nov 25th, 2006 9 Comments »
Stephanie of Throwing Marshmallows writes in What We Are Up To:
” Hmmm…we don’t really sound very “unschooly” lately, but really the above does not take up a huge amount of time and it has come about from seeing what my kids need and working on finding resources that work for them. And it works…. […]
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