First Day of School (in pictures)

Welcome Back!

Morning Walk.

Artist Study

Math

History

Woo hoo! Day 1 of, how many??

I missed pictures of a lot of other things we did today.  I was busy teaching! Oh well, maybe another day?

PS – DO NOT go to bed at night with wet hair. Eee Gad!

Week-at-a-glance

I have been busy working this past weekend on our weekly schedule. I use excel and break down the weekly AO readings for each child and add daily Bible, poetry, penmanship (copywork), phonics and math, and then rotate out the other subjects on different days. I do all 36 weeks this way. [...]

Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival!

If you haven’t yet, mosey your way on over to the Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival being hosted at Life and Love in Rose Cottage. Lots of great stuff to read!
Also, consider submitting something to the upcoming CM Blog Carnival being hosted at On Our Journey Westward. It’s a “back to school” planning bash [...]

A “typical” school day…

For some reason, I get a lot more email about this blog than I get comments, and I have gotten several emails lately about what a “typical” school day looks like at our house. Well, let me just start by saying that no two days here are exactly the same. But, we do [...]

For the Children’s Hour

Here is a book I purchased specifically for Diva and her upcoming CM school year: For the Children’s Hour.

I first saw this book on amazon.com, but I hesitated in buying it initially as I wasn’t sure I really needed it, or that it would be just what I was looking for. However, I did [...]

Planning a new year

It’s late July and that means one thing in the online world of homeschooling – blog and message board postings crammed full of planning for a new school year! They are all over wordpress, blogger, blogspot and even myspace. Goodness! All this talk of planning has me fired up to plan our [...]

Thank you IRS!

We got our economic stimulus check yesterday and I took the opportunity to order the books and curriculum I need for next year. However, even though that money is a surprise bonus (and I easily could have gotten carried away), I stayed frugal and only ordered what I really needed. I really, really [...]

“Grace Darling” Narrations

One of our very favorite books this year is Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin. I have enjoyed every single story we have read from that book, and Super-boy and Diva have been known to act them out pretty regularly. Some of the stories have made a huge impact on Super-boy and [...]

Spring has sprung!

This little sweetie has been under much observation in the backyard this afternoon.  (As seen from our laundry room door)

And on our walk this morning, we discovered this little gem -

I am not sure what bird is building this nest, but my best guess is either Robin or Cardinal. I won’t know until I [...]

I’ve missed you!

So, my week long internet hiatus is at an end.  I have so much to share, but not enough time to share it in at the moment.  I will probably be blogging my thoughts on my “unplugged” week here rather than myspace, but I am not sure when I will get to it.
Our homeschool is [...]