According to my Facebook feed, all the kids who aren’t back to school yet are getting ready to go next week. We’re still chugging along, but we’re about to finish up Volume 2 of Story of the World and to move into SotW Volume 3...
Thanks to Jocelyn for pointing me to this most excellent lecture: Nurturing Competent Communicators by Andrew Pudewa. Every parent who wants their child to write well should really give it a listen. You don’t have to be a homeschooler. In...
The Christus Experiment by Rod Bennett I picked this one up on my kindle because it received great reviews from Julie Davis of Happy Catholic and Jeff Miller, the Curt Jester, whose taste in books I generally share. Even though I had some initial...
Monday This morning went very smoothly. A good day indeed. I got the girls through math, copywork, and reading by 10. Granted, they did the easiest math– a workbook page in Miquon– and the easiest copywork– a sentence in the...
Monday Since I planned for an outing this morning, I tried to get the girls to do their school work quickly. Both did math and writing. Neither did any reading. We got home just in time to make dinner, so no read alouds today. Oh well. Nature walks...
Learning Notes: First week of August
Monday Oh it was a very Mondayish sort of Monday. Maybe because last night was a late night? The kids were watching a movie when we got back from our dinner date and we let them finish it, but they got to bed latish. Anyway, neither Bella or Sophie...
So Saturday was my birthday. We went to the farmer’s market as usual. It was a bit rainy and chilly, but nice for all that. Had lunch at Wahlburgers. And then a quiet afternoon at home. Dinner was steaks on the grill with lots of fresh from...
Monday Coming back from one week vacation after two weeks staycation makes for a rough Monday. I got Sophie to do a page of copy work and then she was done. Bella did a wee bit of math and read a few sentences. No copy work for her. Oh well. We read...