Posted in strategies, Plans and Ideas on May 5th, 2007 No Comments »
This will be another rambling post about organization. I started this blog originally to keep track of the moments and the patterns of life. It is so easy for me to just wander through my life, wrapped up in my thought processes, hardly noticing anything else. My French teacher […]
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 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 strategies, Journal on Feb 28th, 2007 No Comments »
Sean (14)
Algebra book 8 — we covered several pages today bringing us up to page 9
Quia Latin
Hey Andrew Greek book 3
Traditional Logic chapter 1
Reading/Narrating:
Story of the Church
English Literature for Young People
Ways of the Wood Folk
Legends of Chivalry
Kieron (11):
Math – Saxon 65 chapters 51-52
Latin proverb and paradigm
ASL — first couple of signs
Greek book 1
we talked about […]
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 strategies, Journal on Jan 24th, 2007 No Comments »
I wanted to write down a few notes in a hurry before it leaves my mind.
I have been using Schuster’s Bible History and Guerber’s Story of the Romans with Kieron. Today we got to the second story. in the latter book.
I showed him a map of Italy in the big Historical Atlas. He thought that […]
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 Literacy and Language, strategies, Journal on Jan 15th, 2007 No Comments »
We got our new water heater installed today — after 17 days of boiling water on the kitchen stove. I quickly took a bath before something else happens! Sorry everybody else, but a clean mom is a happy mom. So far no one else has been in a […]
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 strategies, Journal on Jan 8th, 2007 1 Comment »
Ah, I expect today to be a “reset” day, after Epiphany.
I notice that whenever we are transitioning from one season of time to another, we have a day or two of course correction. I’ve learned to plan for this. Every Monday, academics are light and we focus on getting the house clean (since Sunday […]
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