…or the rush to welcome spring…whatever you name this time of year we are all extremely busy. Among the ever present list of activities:
Dance Classes are working on the shows. One of the biggest differences between the Studio classes and other studios is the end of year show. Most offer a recital where each class does […]
Or perhaps apologies to our Canadian neighbors.
Once again Martinzoo posted some more wonderful homeschool ideas. While I love the idea of participating in the backyard bird count it isn’t going to happen this year. But the tomatosphere project is entirely different. Let’s see–nature study, gardening, 4H, and something Mommy loves to do–sounds like a winner!!
So with Little […]
Just for the record the only one who had a chance of napping yesterday was the baby. It was almost a nothing-but-driving day but I decided to put the 4H group’s tye-die project off until February. That was a good decision as only 3 kids other than my own showed up for the meeting.
Today was a […]
No matter how hard you try it is impossible to glue eyes back on a dragonfly.
Oh, give me a home where the schoolbooks don’t roam
Where the teens and the toddlers play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
School, school in our home
Where the teens and the toddlers play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
How often at night when the heavens are bright
With the […]
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 […]
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 […]