Homeschooling
Little Bit of Everything
Yesterday was a slow day. D cooked everyone breakfast. Cooking is such an important life skill, but because it isn’t reading, writing or arithmetic most people don’t consider learning to cook as actual learning. Personally I eat every day but don’t need to remember how to balance chemical equations…just saying. The kids all recently got … Continue reading
Vocabulary
[On the blog front, I've discovered I have all sorts of coding errors I didn't have before. I'm guessing that's the cause of the lack of paragraphs lately. I need to back this whole thing up and reinstall a newer version. I still have the original wordpress I got years ago. Why? Cause I can't … Continue reading
Summer So Far
They only attend a two-day-a-week homeschool enrichment program, and yet, because it is on the school calendar, when it end it feel like summer. Summer somewhere this hot means lots of people either hibernate or leave. We’ve been in the hibernate category the last few years but are determined this year to stay busy.Thursday was … Continue reading
Today
Today we had our first guitar lessons. After looking – and quitting repeatedly after becoming frustrated – we finally found someone to teach all three guitar. Found a former homeschooler who is now in college and teaching guitar and piano. The kids absolutely loved the lessons; said it was the most fun lesson they’ve ever … Continue reading
Small Learning Moments
We’ve been busy doing cool things I should write about. Unfortunately due to the inverse proportion laws of the universe, the more stuff we have to write about, the less time I have to write. Today though I have our three plus three friends over. They were busy trying to establish the rules of engagement … Continue reading
Not Realizing They’re Learning
Yesterday we drove D up to grandma and papa’s for the weekend. On the drive back, the kids started talking about one of the game they had demonstrated at their homeschool program’s open house on Wednesday night. They played alphabet freeze tag and could only be released from frozen by saying a word that started … Continue reading
Non-Newtonian Fluid
Non-Newtonian fluid just sounds so much more complex and, well, scientific than oobleck. Look it up. There are tons of websites explaining it. We decided, after seeing it at the AZ Science Center last time we were there, to make oobleck for science co-op today. 2 parts cornstarch (or any starch I was told) 1 … Continue reading
Today Just Worked
Today just worked. Instead of cereal or yogurt sprinkled with fruit, I saw the day-old baguette and decided to make french toast. And the kids helped – cooperatively helped, not, “No, I wanna stir.” And the made fruit salad by themselves -Â strawberries and blueberries and bananas – and two pots of tea. And then … Continue reading
The Life of Unsocialized Recluses
As common as homeschooling is getting in the US, I still frequently hear concerns about my children not being socialized. I’m gonna guess they mean the second definition, 2. To make fit for companionship with others; make sociable, rather than the first, 1. To place under government or group ownership or control. Although placing them … Continue reading
On a Scale of 1 to Gross…
So today we went to the Arizona Science Center for one of their homeschool classes. We’ve been going to the monthly classes since August. This month? Eyes. All about cones and rods and color bindness and lenses and optic nerves and how eyes work and…dissecting cow eyes. Yup. We spent the morning dissenting cow eye … Continue reading
