Season's Greetings! For everyone who celebrates it, Merry Christmas! Happy New Year to Everyone, and I hope whatever you celebrate, or however you are feeling about this time of year, you are at peace and healthy. I know some people get very sad and lonely around this time, and my heart goes out to them. … Continue reading December 2021
Just a quick thank you to those of you who reached out to me after my last blog post. I want to reiterate that while I do have many worries, I am generally positive and happy. Though we never found that ideal "village” to raise our kids in, we have made the best of what … Continue reading The Future Holds Promise
The past two years have been some of the most difficult of my life, although I see how things could be much worse, so I remain positive. I see life as a miracle no matter what it dishes out. But I won't lie. While I appreciate the good things in life, there's a lot of … Continue reading October 2021
I have felt a range of emotions as I read and watch the news over the past couple of weeks. I generally try to see things from all points of view, and sometimes the media makes this hard to do. That's why I read a wide range of media. I wish I could help more, … Continue reading What We All Can Do
This post talks about how I block big chunks of our day for our homeschool lessons. If you'd like to know how I schedule the individual, academic lessons within those larger chunks of time, please refer to my blog posts on each grade, which you can find in my menu. For 7th grade, I have … Continue reading Scheduling Your Homeschool Day
Here it is -- the end of April -- and while our homeschool year won't officially end until July or August, I begin now to start thinking about what I want to finish, what I'll carry over to next year, what to work on over the summer, and we start to shift to other meaningful … Continue reading A year of meaningful work
Today is the 150th birthday of Marie Curie, the distinguished Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist. She was the first woman and first person to win the Nobel Prize twice. As a coincidence, I've been reading a biography of Marie Curie, written by Robert Reid in 1974. The book may have already been surpassed by … Continue reading Marie Curie’s Homeschool Co-op
Being is the great explainer. ~ Henry David Thoreau When I tell people that I'm a homeschool mom, I'm sure most people think that I teach my boys everyday. But the truth is, they have been teaching me. They are the teachers, and I'm the pupil. They have taught me that you can be happy, … Continue reading What My Kids Have Taught Me
Someone asked me on Facebook if I could tell her the reasons we homeschool. There are so many reasons, I'm not sure I can list them all! I've written posts in the past about why we homeschool, but I think it's a good question to come back to now and then because as we continue … Continue reading Why Do We Homeschool?
This is the third post I've written about homeschooling the fourth grade. I wrote about our schedule and how I will decide what to work on each day in my last post. Our Curriculum Language Arts My main priority is reading good literature to my boys. I think reading is the best way to learn … Continue reading Homeschooling 4th Grade Curriculum
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