Anyone who knows me knows that I’m not a “school at home” type of person. Things are pretty relaxed at our home and our school day has a certain ebb and flow to it. However, I also need some boundaries and guidelines or we can go weeks without doing much of anything.
Homeschooling, whether it’s [...]
Archive for August, 2007
Treating homeschooling as a job
Posted in Workish Posts on August 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This is what I’m doing today
Posted in Workish Posts on August 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’m wearing a skirt. And make-up. And my hair is up. And I had a Starbucks triple-grande-non-fat-vanilla cappucchino. Wheee!
I’m working today. This is the one week out of the year that I spend three days in a row working outside of the home. It’s always an exciting time of year. Those are our teachers – [...]
Lamentations of the Father
Posted in General Fun of Parenting on August 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In light of the fact that my children and husband will be back in 10 hours and 15 minutes and I have now run out of time to procrastinate, I thought I’d post the funniest thing I ever read on the internet. Of course, I spent about half an hour trying to locate it before [...]
Philosophy of Education
Posted in Homeschool Set-up on August 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
It’s important to know why you’re doing what you’re doing. Homeschooling comes with challenges and set-backs. That ideal, pie-in-the-sky vision you had of what homeschooling would look like will not happen everyday. There will be days when you’ll wonder why on earth you even started homeschooling in the first place and there will be days [...]
The Great Solitary Planning Weekend of Glee
Posted in Homeschool Planning on August 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
In about fifteen minutes my husband’s Suburban will pull into the driveway, load up, and then pull away for the weekend. I will be left here with the cat and the dog…alone. He asked me not to sound quite so gleeful last night when I was talking about it. I have an entire weekend to [...]
Supermom Schedules
Posted in Homeschool Planning on August 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Yes, fall is in the air – or at least in my imagination. As September approaches, homeschool moms all over Canada will sit down in front of their Excel spreadsheets or their Word tables and construct elaborate, colour coded schedules that include time blocks for every goal they want to accomplish in the new school year. [...]
Suzuki Week
Posted in Suzuki Violin on August 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »
We had a great time during out second year at Valhalla Suzuki Institute. It’s beautiful out there and the boys get to play violin all week long. Some Suzuki parents may cringe at the sight of Harry sitting cross legged to play – where are his play-position feet??? I’ll blame that on the fiddler. The [...]
Kindergarten
Posted in Homeschool Planning on August 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Here’s Harry. He’ll be starting his first “official” year of homeschooling in September. Please ignore Sam’s fist in this picture. Poor Harry was just innocently smiling for the camera; I’m sure he wasn’t doing anything to antagonize his older brother to the point of insanity.
Don’t you just love kindergarten? It’s my favourite year. Kindergarten stuff [...]
Math Plans
Posted in Homeschool Planning, Math on August 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Finding the perfect math program is like locating an elusive treasure. Everyone is looking for it and everyone truly believes they will find it. I thought I had it, for a while… And I still believe it’s the closest-to-perfect math curriculum for 1 – 6. It’s Singapore Math, in case you haven’t already guessed. Singapore promotes [...]
French
Posted in Homeschool Planning on August 1, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This is most of what I’ve got to work with. There are a few things missing from the pile, some more French children’s music, Leap Frog memory match in French, Le Francais Facile levels 1 and 2 (Jr. is shown in the picture) and a few other odds and ends. We’re working towards the lofty [...]
