Homeschooling
That’s How We Roll
That’s how we roll…well that could be referring to the bike ride everyone not still coughing took today. But I was actually thinking of spending the last few days with the boys making new Dungeons & Dragons characters. For the first quest they did, the dad who is the dungeon master and teaching them to … Continue reading
Icky Sickies
The last few days we’ve been fighting off the sickies. Nothing major, just tired and an annoying cough. Monday D and C went to the first meeting for the Arizona Homeschool Theater program, while their sister stayed home sick with grandma, and then we pretty much laid around all day. Tuesday they all went to … Continue reading
Roller Grooving’
Okay, so I’m behind. We’ve been doing our thing…things. Last thursday we went roller skating with some friends. Fun, exercise and groovy with the black lights and glow sticks. Your browser does not support the video tag Weekend was spent with grandma. Eat, read, watch movie, play, repeat :)
Internet Wandering
I’m often asked what we do all day. That is a lot of why I do this, why I’m trying to get back in the habit now that the blog is fixed. If you asked what we did last week or last month, I’d be able to tell you the big things – vacations, field … Continue reading
Life on the Fly
Somehow with everything being put on hold with the holidays, our homeschool group ended up completely over-scheduled yesterday. Never let it be said there is nothing to do around here as homeschoolers. Yesterday morning we had science co-op. We learned about buoyancy and propulsion. After learning about the theory, the kids build boats from halved … Continue reading
From Pirates to Punk
Right now I have one sleeping, two if you count daddy, one reading a Magic Treehouse book and one doing Mighty Mind puzzles. Random. Yesterday definitely had that eclectic random feeling we specialize in sometimes, but added busy. We headed over to the Arizona Science Center. While we’d planned just to walk around, we saw … Continue reading
Learning Away From Home
While some homeschoolers would consider any school learning to bump you from that huge homeschool label, my guys like to go to an enrichment program that run two days a week. They like the no-pressure classes and seeing friends; I use the time to recharge. We missed the first day of the new semester because … Continue reading
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
Our Homemade Reading Challenges for 2012
So maybe if I get ambitious I’ll try to figure out how to make a fancy banner for each of our homemade reading challenges. Never could find anything good for the kids, but they liked the idea. So I told them of some of the ones I’d found and we talked and discussed and thought … 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
