Adventures in Homeschooling

I’m not sure where to begin.
Dan pointed out today that I haven’t posted here in over a year. Sad, I know. What was originally to be a blog of our daily school activities has been sadly neglected.
It’s time to blow the dust off and get started again.
Over the last year, school has been very organic. [...]

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We’ve had consistent internet access for about 3 months now, but I haven’t been able to kick myself back into the habit of updating in here frequently.
It’s not that I don’t want to, it’s that I get easily distracted by something or other and then forget about it completely.
The good news is that we’re definitely [...]

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Ever wonder what the kids should be learning? Me too
Well tonight I found a resource that tells exactly that.  I mean I knew the basics – reading, writing, math, science, history, social studies, art, etc.. But what does all that exactly mean in relation to a relative grade?
One thing I’ve learned since  we [...]

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After a considerable amount of time offline (and in the books) we’re back!
I didn’t realize just how integral internet access was to my curriculum until I spent 6 months without it. I can’t count the number of times the kids asked a question, and my answer was;  if we had internet access we could look [...]

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So Jaydn got a bunch of shark books from the library yesterday… and that’s where our day went today. Well that and spiders (Shirley’s book selection), and I spy (Rowan’s book selection).
We learned a bit about shark anatomy and physiology (did you know sharks can puke up their stomachs if they’re afraid?), and that they’re [...]

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Ok so I fell off the horse. I’m notorious for starting blogs and not keeping up with them, so this really should come as no surprise. But now I have Shirley – aka “mini-mom” to remind me. “Mom, did you remember to write in your blog today?” D’oh!
So now I’m here to write about Friday, [...]

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I discovered the value of sleep last night. Yes I knew it already, but every once in a while you get reminded. Jaydn was up just about every 2 hours last night. For some reason he just couldn’t sleep. So he’d turn on his light and the bathroom light, and that would be [...]

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Yesterday was one of those days where you know you did “stuff” but can’t remember what the heck you did. I know we were busy, but I can’t honestly remember what we were busy doing. The only thing that really sticks out in my mind is our trip to the library. Yes! We finally made [...]

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I woke up this morning and completely forgot today was presidents day. Actually, to be honest, there was nothing to forget, I didn’t even realize today was presidents day. Good thing the kids didn’t know either
I had planned on a full day of stuff, but when Dan reminded me that it was presidents [...]

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Today was very cool. I got up, made breakfast, grabbed a shower, and then everyone very easily settled into some very focused work. We started with some math worksheets, and afterwards the kids were asking for more so I printed a few more out. Eventually Jaydn and Shirley both decided to fill out a multiplication [...]

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