Posted in Early Childhood, Milestones on Jun 28th, 2008 1 Comment »
I brought out our beginning phonics books yesterday in order to plan a bit for next year — 100 Easy Lessons and some sheets I made last year.
Paddy and Aidan both picked them up and started working on them and to my surprise, they had both gained ground since we “stopped” sometime […]
Posted in Literacy and Language, Milestones, special needs, Journal on Apr 11th, 2007 1 Comment »
I always feel like Ma Ingalls when I write something like “today we went to town” like it was a real occasion. For us, it is, since it involves a 60 hour one way trip to get there and then, since “town” is one of those horizontal valley cities, it takes a lot of […]
Posted in Early Childhood, Milestones, special needs on Apr 7th, 2007 No Comments »
I can’t find the post where I talked about Aidan having trouble with the concept of “before and after”. This seems to be a favorite V-tech toy option. He has been playing quite a bit with an old V-tech number phone. One of the games is “What comes after #N? (for example, 5)” […]
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 strategies, Milestones, Journal on Jan 31st, 2007 1 Comment »
Today is Kevin’s 45th birthday and also St John Bosco’s feast day. I was going to read to the kids a bit about this wonderful saint but so far not. Maybe I’ll get there. It’s not noon yet.
I am going to try something new; putting the academic bits in bold so they […]
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 Milestones on Jan 11th, 2007 3 Comments »
Today is Kieron’s birthday! Paddy had his golden birthday in December, turning four on the 4th, and now it’s Kieron’s turn. He is eleven today.
It’s hard to believe how fast he’s grown up. I was looking for a picture of him to put on here and found that almost all the pictures are of […]
Posted in Early Childhood, Milestones, Math and Logic on Dec 4th, 2006 3 Comments »
Here he is being a youngest “Son of Willa Elder“, photo and costume courtesy of his sister.
The other big movie favorites around here recently have been:
Captains Courageous
Boys Town
It’s a Mad Mad Mad World
Arsenic and Old Lace
Bells of St Mary
Paddy has been a counting demon recently. He counts EVERYTHING, even letters in the title of a […]
Posted in Milestones on Dec 2nd, 2006 2 Comments »
Before today, I don’t think I’ve ever woken up on December 1st and thought: this is the day to start making Advent preparations. When I think about WHY this is so, I guess the term “living Advent,” comes to mind. It seems that every December for the past […]
Posted in Milestones on Nov 19th, 2006 No Comments »
Faith tagged me for this meme – so Sunday brunch can wait for a few more minutes.
1. How old were you when you learned to read and who taught you?
I was six and in first grade. My mom says the school I was in used a wonderful phonics-based program and I could read by […]
