Readin’ & Writin’
Wednesday
See? Fourth day in a row – woohoo. Today was supposed to be park day; we should have been running around with squirt guns. But after the day started with sibling bickering they decided we should have a mellow home day, and who am I to argue? So the kids read. B is reading the … Continue reading
Tuesday
Tuesday – and I’m phone posting again. Yesterday was the kids twice-a-week homeschool enrichment program. B is doing a unit on toads and frogs, and finishing up desert and rainforest. She brought home seeds in a transparent planter and one covered in black paper to simulate the desert and rainforest. C learned about Egyptian hieroglyphs … Continue reading
Monday
So trying to blog every day for a while…day 2 (hey, that’s a streak). Monday morning was science co-op. We should have headed over to learn about salt (we’ve been working with elements, chemistry, etc), but the kids just could get moving. Instead we spent the morning reading – where we finally, Finally, FINALLY finished … Continue reading
Words for Thought
We’ve been reading quite a bit the last few days. Well I’ve been reading. We had books due back at the library which inspired the ten book read the other day, and today we’ve been pulling them off our own shelves. Having set the challenge for ourselves to see how many books we could read … Continue reading
More Fun With Books…Banned Books
We’re still fighting off whatever uck has gone around. It comes and goes and has been around for weeks. I decided we should take today slow and just hang out. We still have quite a few books from the library from the 1001 Children’s Books You Must Read Before Growing Up that we haven’t read … 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
It’s All Greek to Me
Well, first of all, the combination of tickling someone squirmy and a laptop keyboard doesn’t always work out for the best. So if my typing gets a bit…lackadaisical, it may be because I’m missing one of my shift keys and too lazy to reach over and use the other. The interest in big words diminished … Continue reading
For the Love of Markers
Kids have been feeling very self directed lately. Yesterday they spent a great deal of time making comic books (which daddy is supposed to photograph). C’s was about R2D2 while D made up his own superheroes. Today the kids made political signs for the yard while I ate lunch. They did it all themselves and … Continue reading
Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
For a long time we had an idea of what the kids should be learning, general interest stuff, and pointed it out to them. They’d either start a conversation or not. Last year we went more unschooly and really let them get into – or not get into – whatever they wanted. While I do … Continue reading
Learning By Absorption
After gymnastics today, D and I went to Home Depot. As we left, we drove by the big sign and ended up with a very fantastic conversation. D: Why does that say The Home Depot? me: Because that’s the name of the store. We just usually call it Home Depot. D: But it’s not the … Continue reading
