Posted in Life on Jul 18th, 2006 8 Comments »
*This is actually an old entry from my old homeschool blog. I’m going through it and pulling out the entries I want to save, and this is one of them, from October.
Why I Can’t Get Anything Done Lately
Decide to tackle the huge pile of books I’ve purchased lately to supplement homeschool. Begin to separate […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 6th, 2006 8 Comments »
So we’re in the countdown now…six days until they are gone for six weeks.
One of the things that has happened since we started homeschooling is we’ve drawn closer to one another. It’s inevitable that it would happen, because we are together nearly constantly. The past few months specifically have seen this overwhelming increase in my […]
Posted in Life, Holidays on Jul 5th, 2006 2 Comments »
Yesterday we made special t-shirts to wear for the 4th. Instructions can be found here.
I think they turned out great.
Posted in Life on Jul 5th, 2006 1 Comment »
Our neighbor, Miss Ami, had a Great Dane for nearly 15 years. Duke was a very gentle friend to my children. No day was complete without a run over to Miss Ami’s to give Duke a hug.
Duke developed arthritis in his hind legs; he finally reached the point of being unable to stand […]
Posted in Life on Jul 3rd, 2006 6 Comments »
This evening was spent making Festive Fans to use tomorrow during our fireworks observation in Columbia City with some good friends.
Then the children went to a wake for a dog (more about this later), and around 10:15, we went outside and sprawled on the trampoline to watch the fireworks all around us. […]
Posted in Life on Jul 2nd, 2006 2 Comments »
What Sundays are for:
*twenty-minute showers
*pot roast in the crock pot
*lying on the trampoline, snuggling with the littlies as they look at books, play shark-in-the-water, and gently bounce me
*cool breezes and rustling corn stalks from the farm next door
*pigtails and denim shorts
*bare feet
*noticing how beautiful my favorite tree is as I look up through its branches
Posted in Holidays on Jul 2nd, 2006 No Comments »
With the fourth nearly upon us, I went in search of some crafts and activities for the little ones.
Preschool through pre-teen
All ages, including parents
Adolescents
Party time!
Lots of links
Recipes, crafts, history, national anthem…something for just about everyone
Posted in Lesson Planning, Life on Jul 1st, 2006 7 Comments »
I’m sitting here working on the schedule for next year. Yes, schedule. I like schedules. We are unschoolish in the summer, and on weekends, anything goes, but for the most part—-I like having a schedule for those 180 required days per year.
Fortunately, my kids have inherited this same love of […]
