Saturday, November 26, 2011
The year marches on. Soon November will be over and the last month of the year will commence. I need my children to really get the pedal pressed all the way to the floor and go, go, go! It’s been slow, and it’s always, “I will later” and then not. Also I still need funds [...]
Summer is fast approaching. It’s been a tough Spring around here. Our HVAC is out of order, no A/C all year, we’ve needed it since March. We are getting a new system installed in a couple of days, and that will unleash a new lease on life in homeschooling endeavors. I suffer in heat and [...]
I’ve been working with my two oldest to get them using blogs to write things about their schooling. It’s not always easy to get them doing things, and I figured this would help them. Well, it did and didn’t. One thing it did that is BAD is makes them think they can be on the [...]
Our summer wasn’t much of one. It’s been hot, muggy, dreary, allergy-prone most of the time. When it’s not gray and overcast it’s super duper hot. When it is overcast it’s not AS hot. In any case it’s the house that makes it what it is, on sunny days it’s hard to keep the house [...]
Spring and the coming summer ALWAYS make me feel more into “schooling” for some reason, as does the Christmas Season, which is kind of strange when I think about it. Anyhow, I do know somewhat where we live has to do with it, the weather and seasons, Spring & Summer very hot and sunny, or [...]
Monday, December 14, 2009
It’s Monday, time for “official” education-ing to be happening. I’m getting “them” to do their Latin on Tues. & Thurs., and every day do their “Grammar” & “Spelling Wisdom” & “Creative Writing” & “Math-U-See” & “Catechism Q & A” (Westminster Shorter) … Just for starters, trying to get THESE things happening regularly. Hopefully I can [...]
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
I’ve not posted for quite awhile here. Instead I’ve been trying to get the children to do their chores without being prompted daily, a work in progress, slow, if any progress, on most fronts. I’ve also been trying to get them interested in doing the educational things that I have for them in their main [...]
Education isn’t only book learning, and also isn’t just stuff that is in a book that says must be taught. It’s all of life and that’s my focus this week, getting stuff DONE, and getting the children to see that it can be done as a team, each doing their part makes it all go [...]
Our 8 year old isn’t reading still, though he does recognize some letter/word combos … but just stays frustrated about not reading, that it doesn’t magically appear, I think. My frustration is high as well. We have had this and that and that other and this other thing to aide him. Me working with him, [...]
For us “schooling” never ends. Even when it’s not “official” of course. All life is education. I’ve been very slack with the children of late, but since the 4th of July is now past I’ll be ramping up more and more as the summer goes on. There’s much to catch up on since in 2007 [...]