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My Homeschool Obsessions
If you happen to hang out with me online, you may know that there are certain things for which I am a complete homeschool evangelist. Products that I think everyone should try and love. Of course, no resource is right … Continue reading
Testing, One, Two, Three…
For the first time this year, we decided to have a go at “standardized testing.” I chose not to bother with a “real” test. We are fortunate to live in a place where we don’t have to test, so for … Continue reading
Life Interferes
What is it about spring that makes it so hard for us to get on track? Lately, we have just been stuck for getting our basic stuff accomplished. We’re doing okay on things, but I wish we were doing more. … Continue reading
Posted in Homeschooling, Parenting
Tagged busy life, home education, homeschool, homeschooling, organization, parenting, routines, spring
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More Poetry Books for Tea Time
We have been very irregular with poetry teas, but they are still happening here, at least every couple of weeks. One of the nice things about them is that the kids are often the impetus behind them. They pick out … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Books, Homeschooling
Tagged bravewriter, home education, homeschool, homeschooling, language arts, poetry, poetry books, poetry tea
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Required Reading Redux
It’s now been several months since we started our “required reading” program. You can find the first post with the book list here. Basically, I made a list of books I thought would be good third grade books. Every month, … Continue reading
Posted in Homeschooling, Children's Books
Tagged homeschooling, homeschool, reading, home education, required reading, third grade, book lists
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Specimen Collecting
BalletBoy and I caught an awesome shiny green tiger beetle on our nature walk. We examined him in the specimen jar then let him go. We also collected one of each of the wildflowers we saw for a total of … Continue reading
Posted in Homeschooling
Tagged almost wordless wednesday, beetles, biology, home education, homeschool, homeschooling, nature, nature study, rock creek park, specimens
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Why DI?
At our state DI tournament, they asked kids to stand who have done DI for four or more years. My kids and one of their teammates stood up. For a moment, the other team manager tsked them to sit and … Continue reading
Math Forks in the Road
Mushroom is rapidly nearing the end of Miquon. I predict he’ll be finished with Purple within the month and that’s if we draw it out. BalletBoy has recently finished Math Mammoth 3. In the meantime, we’ve been trying out Beast … Continue reading
Happy Peepster
After some interesting discussion, the awesome folks over at Secular Home School decided we should have a Peeps diorama show off with a book theme. We just had to participate. Mushroom made Harry Peeper and the Quidditch Match. BalletBoy made … Continue reading
Posted in Homeschooling, Parenting
Tagged easter, harry potter, homeschool, homeschooling, mrs. piggle-wiggle, parenting, peep dioramas, peeps, silly projects
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Recalibrations
I feel like I’m in a constant state of recalibrations as a parent. The house and the homeschool are this incredibly complex, busy, multifaceted machine and it’s my job to constantly oil it, take readings, and generally do whatever tinkering … Continue reading
Posted in Homeschooling, Parenting
Tagged home education, homeschool, homeschooling, narrations, nature, organization, organization systems, parenting, schedules, tinkering, writing
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