(our school room, ready for another year) One of many reasons we homeschool is that it allows us flexibility to stay together as a family despite Kent’s somewhat mobile life/work. We have various reasons to travel most of the month of September, so we started school a couple weeks early Read more…
As you know I am smack dab in the middle of teaching James and Joel to read well and love reading. For a Literacy Specialist, this is a little bit like being a kid in a candy store! James doesn’t really need any more teaching – just vocabulary, spelling and Read more…
Our homeschool tradition is that the first hour of our first day of the year is spent taking the obligatory school pictures. Hair gel, chairs, collared shirts and all. You all would laugh with us if you saw that the fancy clothes lasted all of 20 minutes and all three Read more…
As stressed as I felt to get everything done earlier than usual this month, God graciously reminded me that last year I was flat on my back the month before school. And when we finally started the school year, the kids’ desks and chairs weren’t finished yet! We made it Read more…
About a YEAR ago some of you asked to see how we painted the boys’ room… Well, better late than never, right? For the artsy types, here’s the scoop: I saw some really cute Dr. Seuss rooms online, and we are major fans and own every single book and read Read more…
I’m sure you are hearing this popular marketing phrase all the time, but over here we are not. I’m just finally packing up last year’s mess of work to unpack the new books for 2010-2011. James will cruise through Second Grade. He thrives on learning and if we can’t find Read more…
I love the word ‘Misc.’Miscellaneous.Junk drawer.Leftovers.Conglomerate. It’s fun to say.I used to have a folder of documents labeled ‘Misc’.Drove Kent crazy.Still have ‘Misc shortcuts’ on my desktop.Love ‘Misc.’Something that doesn’t fit in a category? Just throw it in Misc.Well, here is my Critters: Misc. =) We have ants of every Read more…
Our adventure to solve Daisy’s Dilemma (see previous post)began by 4×4 driving 90 minutes south of here to a small grass airstrip. (One of our tires rolled off into the bush part-way through the trip, but I’ll write about that another day!) We flew out into the jungle in a Read more…
We actually started September 8, when these were taken. Anna was running errands with Dad so school would start ‘on the right foot’,so she missed picture day, but she’ll get her turn soon enough. By traditional measurements James is in First grade this year and Joel is starting Kindergarten (James Read more…