Making time for the important things in life
For months now I’ve had The Story of the World: Ancients on our shelves, just waiting for this school year to start. I’ve been so excited about the program that I wondered if I had unrealistic expectations of it. Nope. Not unrealistic. Story of the World is great. We’re using the Activity Guide that accompanies the [...]
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Back in April of this year, I decided to make some changes to our math program. Tasha (Gr. 1) is now using Singapore 1A as her main program with Miquon math labs once a week. One of the reasons I had made the switch was my fear that she was starting to dread math. Grade [...]
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We’ve marked tomorrow as the First Day of School for our homeschool. (We’ve been doing the basics for the past couple of weeks to warm us all up for this.) Tasha and Charlotte decided that they would like to see the plans for the day, which I thought was fair. I made cards for each [...]
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Tonight our girls saw their first porcupine. They also, for the first time, saw their Grandpa use his gun to end the porcupine’s gambols on his lawn. Tasha was shaking and had tears in her eyes as she witnessed this. (Later she told us that she imagined the porcupine was “frolicking around, daydreaming about candies” [...]
[Continue reading...]Some of the best “school” memories that we have had over the past year have revolved around the Five in a Row program. (I’ve already written about FIAR, but as a quick recap, the idea is that we read the same picture book together every day for a week and do a different activity each [...]
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Nature studies are important in our developing science studies, but we’re also going to be rounding these out with lots of other Very Cool Stuff. My general plan (which I reserve all rights to change at any given time) is to break our first year of biology down as follows: Summer 2011 – Introductory biology [...]
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