Monday May 25 I put out the books last night, but then I slept in late and the girls hadn’t started on their own. They were instead embroiled in a game they didn’t want to leave off playing. School didn’t start till after ten. But both did a little...
Bella has been reading Why Not Lafayette by Jean Fritz. She read a chapter in the car on the way to Boston on Friday and more over the weekend. Monday May 18 Bella’s birthday Hard to get the girls to do any work today. Sophie did half a page of math...
Monday May 11 Sophie did copywork and a math page and counted some coins. Bella did half a page of math, a line of copywork, and played with modeling clay. Bella read me a couple of paragraphs from the pirate book. We talked about nouns and verbs...
The deacon’s homily for the feast of Pentecost had so much potential energy that was never released. He began by describing forest fires in the Western United States, and talked about how the roar and the wind and the flames were similar to the...
I’m combining two weeks of learning notes because we were hit by the stomach bug and did only about one week’s worth of work in the last two weeks. If that. Sadly, having survived the whatever flu-like illness that attacked us before the...
Bella woke up vomiting in the early hours on Wednesday morning. She had near constant vomiting and diarrhea for the next ten hours until we finally got a prescription for an anti-emetic but she’s still got terrible diarrhea. Now she’s...
Sophie made her first communion on Saturday. Such joy! Since we’re still settling in at our new parish I wasn’t sure how to arrange for first communion. Would they be ok with a strange homeschooling family showing up and wanting a new child to make...
