Sunday April 19 Bella read ahead in Swallows and Amazons, skipping to the chapter about Vickie’s birthday, and then told me about the part of the chapter that she read. Now she’s frequently reading books or parts of books that I have not previously...
Monday April 13 A really good start to our first full week back after Easter. I’m glad we did some school work on Thursday and Friday because I think it helped get them back into the groove. I had to tear the girls away from books to get them to do...
Halfway through April and I’m finally getting to write up some thoughts on March’s reading. In this post I’ve only included books I’ve finished. There were quite a few other books that I picked up and put down and made no...
Sometimes things just line up perfectly, beyond anything you could possibly have planned. Last week we began reading about the American Revolution. I got a bunch of picture books out from the library and we were immersing ourselves in it: The Boston...
Monday April 6 I had an early morning appointment for labs, so I was out the door by 8. When I came home the kids were already outside playing. I took Bella clothes shopping and we found a little trike for Lucy too. In the afternoon Dom lit a fire...
Last Wednesday we went to the members only preview of the Hokusai exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts. Everyone enjoyed it even if Ben did say we were there too long. Poor Ben does enjoy the art, but his attention span is much shorter than ours and...
I didn’t really plan school this week and everyone is sick with colds, but learning still happens and I want to record it. Saturday March 28 Bella played with the orchestra app and assigned roles to the various instruments in a nature symphony she...
Recently I discovered this blog, Love Among the Ruins, dedicated to publishing students’ essays about the intersection of Theology of the Body and culture: The Theology of the Body, at its deepest point, is intended to provide a fundamental...
Two weeks late for these. It’s been busy and crazy. Holy Week, sick kids. Monday March 23 It was a hard start to the week. None of us were focused. But eventually I got Bella through a math lesson and she did a little copy work. Sophie did...