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Dictation

another good homeschooling post from Higher Up and Further In.
I’ll copy the quote after the jump.

Daughter of Time

I just finished reading The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey. Thanks to Julie D. at Happy Catholic for the recommend. (Her excerpt got me so hooked, I tabbed over to a new page and ordered it from the library right away.) A fun mystery novel, a...

Beginning of the End

This is how it begins: a speck of red on the driveway. What is That? It can’t be leaves turning already? But it is. The first falling leaves of autumn. Summer is almost over. Goodbye long days, sandals, shorts, swimsuit. I feel like we hardly...

Speaking of Labor Day

I forgot to mention yesterday that it was the anniversary of my learning how to read a pregnancy test.
I mean, of course, of our confirming our suspicions that a little bella girl was in our future.

Working Hard or Hardly Working?

From the New York Times, a nice Labor Day reflection on why we choose the academic life: On paper, the academic life looks great. As many as 15 weeks off in the summer, four in the winter, one in the spring, and then, usually, only three days a week...

Grateful

This morning Danielle Bean asks readers what they are grateful for. My answers: I am grateful for my wonderful husband who loves me unconditionally. I am grateful for my beautiful daughter with the happy smile and the gleeful squeal. I am grateful...

As if that weren’t enough

Tonight Isabella demonstrated that she can roll from her tummy to her back. She did it at least six or seven times in a row. Now if she can just get from her back to her belly, she’ll be unstoppable. Dom got one roll on video, I think. But...

more bella

Ain’t modern technology great? Video phone isn’t a thing of the future anymore. It’s here and now. Grandma and Grandpa in Texas are able to ooh and ahh over their little granddaughter in MA and have her goo and gah right back. I...

Finally! Toes

Bella’s new discovery. Recently she found her toes. She can spend an hour grabbing them with her hands. But she could not get them into her mouth. She knew it was possible, because I’d put them into her mouth while playing with her. But...

copywork

From Higher Up and Further In, a discussion of copywork: When I first heard about the concept of copywork I was not impressed.  I have been a teacher in some capacity for as long as I can remember, and one thing that stood out in my mind was...

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