Our family uses the Ambleside Online for our curriculum. Right now we are using year 1 for Thomas and Lindsay and a loose combination of AO/HEO for Robert. One advantage is several areas are planned to be studied as a ‘group’ so that we don’t have to fool with 3 artists, 3 composers, or 3 Shakespeares. This is a […]
Our local paper had an announcement that I thought would be helpful for nature study.
Audubon Arkansas and the Arkansas Fish and Game Commission have teamed up to create www.birdsofarkansas.org a new web site, which helps users identify common Arkansas birds.
The site lists 100 common Arkansas birds with photos and a brief description. Bird species may be […]
We had a rough fall semester–one that turned our homeschool into more of an unschool. The kids read whatever they wanted from Calvin & Hobbes to The Children’s Bible. We organized and ran our 4H hamburger-stand during the local festival. They worked on 4H projects whether it was their project or not–insect collecting, cooking, aeronautics. Still with some LD […]
So why did the name ‘Sooner or Later’? It isn’t easy choosing a name, its almost as bad a trying to name a baby. Everyone who hears or reads it will form an opinion about the name carrier before they ever meet. Didn’t want to sound silly or stuffy or lots of other things. For […]
Oh how I promised myself that once I had a blog of my own it would not be neglected, would not be left forlorn, would be updated on a regular basis. I should have remembered by own title because sooner or later…the best laid plans go astray. That’s the way life works. Time that was scheduled to be spent learning about blog keeping is being […]