Category Archives: Homeschooling When we moved into this house, this room was the laundry room. We moved the laundry room to another area and turned this into the school room. This room had two very very small old windows that opened from the center OUT with no screens. I had these new windows put in their place. I...  Oh Draw Write Now, how do we love thee? Let me count the ways! For art, we are combining several different resources. First we are working our way through Drawing With Children. While it’s a great book, it’s a little difficult to break down into nice neat little lessons. This lesson plan link for Drawing...  We are in the very beginning phases of learning to draw the world by heart. We are using the ideas found in The Core concerning geography. We began by adding the 5 great circles to our memory work. The five great circles are The Arctic Circle, The Tropic of Cancer, The Equator, the Tropic of...  It’s been very cold this week! I don’t mind because I actually like that it kept us snuggled up in the house learning and reading and playing and just spending time together. It’s not often that we see much snow around here so when we woke up and saw the snow coming down at about... Yes, I think he is enjoying it.He requested it the very next day after we started it. He looks perturbed at the end because it ended. He likes it when I restart it before it ends. lol!  It was really hard to get Griffin interested in lessons today. He did ok for a little bit but then he was done! He appears to be having some issues with his MEP math. To be honest, I do too.What I mean is that I really have to sit and think to figure out the... Today Griffin wrote a Santa book. We used stickers for the illustrations so he wouldn’t have to think about performing artistically as this can sometimes be a road block for him. He views himself as having inadequate artistic abilities. Of course I don’t perpetuate his idea and I look for ways that he can be... Griffin explains what he has learned about Mesopotamia with the help of some History Pocket props. While we’re posting videos, I thought I’d share this one of him demonstrating the Silent Final E rule tune. He LOVES these rule tunes…looooves them! The words and markings on the board are part of his spelling/reading program. With this program, children do not learn to spell or read via memorization of words, but rather... Griffin has been doing so well with his memory work that we decided to tackle a longer passage. I think he did a great job! Some may wonder how much work we have to do for him to memorize a poem this long. All we did was 3 readings a day for about 11 or... |
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