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Page not found – Old Time Summer https://blog.oldtimesummer.com A Frustrated Mama family blog Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:14:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.19 https://i2.wp.com/blog.oldtimesummer.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/cropped-5348684355_cc5175cd86_o.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Page not found – Old Time Summer https://blog.oldtimesummer.com 32 32 7657767 Math https://blog.oldtimesummer.com/2010/09/23/math/ Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:14:17 +0000 http://blog.oldtimesummer.com/2010/09/23/math/ Continue reading "Math"]]> Math-U-See Gamma is the next level of math we are conquering. The DVD’s never play on the desktop computer that I use with the children for their educational stuff. Thus I have to always make a new version of that resource for them to use. I used Handbrake yesterday to create a file they can watch in QuikTime & access the different chapters. I’ll make a better version of it sometime soon, with chapter names & also a version like I did before, a click home version kind of movie… and also may split it up into pieces so can put it on my eldest’s PSP. 

Gamma is a level I want them to get through quickly then move on to next one early 2011.

]]> 63 Summer about over: Exploring future https://blog.oldtimesummer.com/2010/08/23/summer-about-over-exploring-future/ Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:00:55 +0000 http://blog.oldtimesummer.com/?p=58 Continue reading "Summer about over: Exploring future"]]> 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 cool, keeping it “cool enough” is nye impossible. On dreary gray days it’s hard to move. So let’s explore what each means.

Too hot in the house: nothing much gets done.

Too dark in the house: nothing much gets done.

That’s the truth.

It’s always something that I’m trying to get done, more productivity, more educational stuff going on. I’ve let it go this summer, though I did want to press on and get even more done. Basically I’ve gotten my DD to embrace writing about things she’s learned, some. My DS no. He wrote a little early on, then nothing.

Video games and cartoons take higher precedence for my boys. My girl, she’d lay in bed reading all the time, or drawing, or painting, or creating with clay.

I see value in all the things my girl does, less value in the things my boys do. I do not dis-value video games and cartoons, but I do know it’s only something that should be in a model of many things, less time with those things and more time with un-named things (things that have more reading and thinking involved, historical, nature, human study, mathematical, language, Biblical …)

All my children need to spend more time with the books, software and such that I have for them to learn with, instead of just the video gaming side of things, or just the artistic side of things. The middle is where there is need of deeper exploration, and that’s what I’m trying to get to happen soon. The meaty middle of educational concerns is coming up soon (after “Labor Day” and then it’ll be all that other stuff is the dessert, and I’m going to get them going on the meaty stuff sooner than that, but it’ll be a tasting affair until September, when the real eating starts.

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