This week we are easing into the new homeschool year. I have four weeks of lessons planned for our new year, but we won’t start on them for at least two weeks. Because we took an unexpected time off through most of the summer, I want to spend some time reviewing where we left off….
Over the years of homeschooling, I have become braver in getting away from the school at home mindset. However, I have also known, I needed to get farther away from that mindset in order to be able to attain our goals with our children. Grade levels is one way I am doing that this year. …
In my life this week… This week I have kept busy with blog stuff, from designing a homeschool blog for a friend, to keeping up with my own blogs. We also took a day off and went grocery shopping. I hit Office Max during a sale on ink and managed to get plenty for this…
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We are big on life skills. In fact at times, I think my children learn a lot more out of the mores then in the books. Rarely can life skills be learned in a book, character lessons, yes, but actually being able to carry those out, no. In our family, we incorporate life skills in…
This week has been a busy week at home. We have gotten up fifteen minutes earlier then last week each day. Our nap/rest/reading time has been much more peaceful. I think I will go another 15 minutes earlier next week and then see how this schedule works for the rest of the spring. Why would…
Someone once asked me what I used for science in our homeschool I stared at them blankly. Seriously I did. Shh, we really don’t use anything for science. Science happens in life, and well, we just let life teach us. This is coming from a mom who literally tested out of High school biology, helped…
Over the years, I have wished to have more professional records, or portfolios for our homeschool. I really don’t care that my planning pages are all fill in the blank type, but the what we have done, read, and so forth, I wanted to be more professional. Several years ago, I had purchased Homeschool Tracker…
You know, not all days are good when you are homeschooling, however how you handle those days speaks very loudly to your children. We woke one morning, and one of my children seemed to forget how to read, the mouse for the children’s school computer broke (desktop), and the baby was fussy. The kindergartener does…
