Of…second grade. I guess? If we were counting or he went to public school which we don’t and he isn’t so I guess it doesn’t matter. The first week went well, though. I think our materials are a hit and he’s learning a lot. I didn’t struggle as much as I thought I might when … Continue reading
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First day
I don’t write here much anymore, but I like doing a DITL post on our first day. It serves as sort of a homeschooling scrapbook and allows me to look back and see how our days have evolved. Brady woke up at 4 this morning asking to open his schultüte and start his schoolwork (I … Continue reading
Curriculum Ramblings
Ok, so I did not do so much of the writing on the blog thing this school year. Life has been nutty (we moved, I had some health issues, etc) and I haven’t really had a whole lot to say. The game schooling experiment went pretty well. I think Brady actually learned a lot and … Continue reading
1st Day
Today was our 1st official day of “gameschooling.” Normally we would start the day after labor day, but I work tomorrow and wanted the first day to be at home. Here’s how it went. First morning snuggles with the homeschool mascot Then Brady got up and tore into his schultute. I love this tradition 🙂 … Continue reading
2014-15 curriculum/resources
So we’ve changed things up again by pulling B out of K12. I’ve gone back to work part-time as a nanny and we were no longer near a computer for the required weekly contacts. I also just didn’t feel like he was getting much out of it. We’ve been using the materials we have as … Continue reading
Goofballs and Gorilla Gyms
This goofball, you guys. I canNOT. Last week was Brady’s Spring Break and we had a really nice, quiet break. We had some friends over and went to the aquarium and arcade. played a lot of board games celebrated Papa’s birthday Devoted lots of time to snuggles and Netflix and even more time to breaking … Continue reading
Happy St. Patrick’s Day
Today started (as all St. Patrick’s Days should) with Lucky Charms in green milk. Then school time which consisted of: *Journal *Handwriting *Cutting (a shamrock) *Spelling pre-test (did you know my child could spell parasite? Neither did I.) *Vocabulary (compound words this week: countrymen, downpour, peppermint, dewdrop, bedspread, windowpane, patchwork, ferryboat) *Literature (“The Ugly Duckling” … Continue reading
Onward in 2014
Happy new year, guys! We had a lovely evening with Gramma and Papa last night and a playdate with some of B’s friends today and it was a really nice way to start our year off. I always make a few resolutions/goals and I thought I’d take a second to look back at 2013’s and … Continue reading
Advent-Day 24
As is tradition today’s advent activity was opening a gift. Brady insisted Daddy open his, too (luckily they matched 😉 Then we had our traditional Christmas Eve dinner (at lunch time since Paul worked this evening) And set about preparing tomorrow’s simple menu Fritatta and snickerdoodle muffins for breakfast Veggie soup for … Continue reading
Advent-Day 23
Today was the cookie tray delivery day. It was also scrub-the-house-top-to-bottom day and smiley-face-pancakes-for-dinner day (just because Merry Christmas Eve Eve!