Posted in Big Picture, Transition Years, Plans and Ideas on Jul 8th, 2007 2 Comments »
Christine at Thinking Things Through has collected a bunch of planning posts in one place.
Also, Owl at Owl Flutter has a nice logbook for lollygaggers.
There is a possibility that Sean, may go to school not this year, but next year. At age 14, he is the oldest of my […]
Posted in Big Picture, Journal on Jul 5th, 2007 1 Comment »
Maybe I’ll stick with this PressRow presentation for longer than I’ve been staying with other templates recently. You can customize the header, and that’s nice. The one on there now is of Slea Head. That was one of the most beautiful places we went to on our […]
Posted in Big Picture on Jul 3rd, 2007 3 Comments »
I went back to this day a year ago to see what was on my mind back then and um, try to figure out what to write about now. I’m having such a hard time getting back to regular blogging after the break!
It looks like back then we had just gotten our […]
Posted in Big Picture, Journal on Jun 1st, 2007 1 Comment »
Music: Kilkelly
The last two passports came. Whew! Brendan and Kevin can come with us to Ireland after all : ).
Our car is back from the shop but has to go in again next week.
I got some more raking done. It’s funny. Recently, going out there to rake has […]
Posted in Big Picture, Plans and Ideas on Apr 29th, 2007 No Comments »
I am going to stream consciousness about this past year and how it’s gone in terms of homeschooling.
I started this blog almost a year ago while I was experimenting with “total unschooling”. I wanted a way to record and reflect upon what was happening in our days. I continued this during […]
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 Big Picture, Journal on Apr 13th, 2007 1 Comment »
Paddy is still asleep was still asleep so I thought I’d write my journal before things got going around here. Later on the day will get busy….. we have our homeschool meeting and it takes up a good part of the afternoon.
Yesterday the two little ones had their first T ball game. […]
Posted in Thinking about Learning, Big Picture, Journal on Apr 5th, 2007 1 Comment »
“I am really good at focusing on just one thing, down to the smallest microcosm of thought. I can think one thing to death. That is my problem. I can get down to kindergarten level and identify completely with the young child-mind, and live there all day– but don’t ask me to talk about past […]
Posted in Big Picture, Journal on Apr 3rd, 2007 2 Comments »
As we get closer to summer, I am planning to phase out of a “learning notes” format and into a more unschooling type format of journalling, closer to what I was doing when I originally started this blog. Our CM semester is scheduled to end at the beginning of June. I am planning a few […]
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 . […]
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