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Archive: March 2015

How I Pray

This week I wrote a guest post as part of Tom McDonald’s How I Pray series. You can read it here at Tom’s excellent blog God and the Machine. The whole series is really worth checking out.
Thanks to Tom for hosting. It was fun to write.

Learning Notes Week of March 16

Monday March 16 Sophie did her math and copy work before breakfast was over. She read me a silly library book about a kid who retires and goes to Florida. After breakfast Bella put away the laundry that was in the dryer, put dirty clothes into the...

Homeschooling Classes at the MFA

On Friday we decided to check out the MFA’s classes for homeschoolers. Children are divided into four different age groups: 3-5 years, 6-8 years, 9-11 years, and teens. i enrolled Ben and Anthony in the 3-5 class and Bella and Sophie in the 6...

Learning Notes: Spring Thaw Edition

Monday, March 9 I didn’t get the books out Sunday night so we got a late start on the day. Sophie did her math and copywork with a minimum of fuss, though. She read me the book whose name I suddenly can’t remember about Max and the tractor. Bella...

Guilt Free Learning Notes Linkup 25

Well, we got more snow on Sunday, so Boston has officially had a record year. Most snowfall ever recorded. And most of that was in a thirty day period. It’s been crazy. We’ve had a lot of melting, and I managed to get most of the front...

Thursday’s Children by Rumer Godden

I received an Amazon gift card for Epiphany and used it to buy a whole lot of Rumer Godden books. So far I’ve read The Peacock Spring, A Candle for St. Jude, and Thursday’s Children. I liked the first one quite a bit, a haunting story...

Learning Notes Week of March 1

Monday, March 2 I forgot to put the books out. After Sunday’s break Sophie didn’t pull them out. The girls did copywork and math and then went back to their game. I was too tired to hound them to do more. So no reading practice. Afternoon stories:...

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