Copywork Pages!

I have been playing with my new fonts tonight and made up copywork pages for all of the kids.  Tee hee.  I am a huge dork, I know it.  Leave me alone with my nerdiness. 
For Super-boy I chose a poem by Walter de la Mare, which we will be reading tomorrow.  This will [...]

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 [...]

Woo hoo!

I applied on Friday for financial aid/scholarships from the county for the recreation department so I can enroll the kids in some extracurricular classes this fall.  Well, the county moves very fast (at times anyway) and they already approved our application and put $450 into our recreation account.  So when fall registration begins on Monday, [...]

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 [...]

He cooks!

This morning, Super-boy asked me if he could cook his own eggs and toast for breakfast. Naturally, I said yes! I was cooking quite a few simple meals by eight, so I am sure it’s past time for him to learn to make a few things as well. He has been making [...]

Rainy Day Geography

The kids got up today and finished all their school work bright and early. This is the 2nd time in a row they have been up, motivated and totally finished by 10:00! Perhaps they have finally realized my wisdom when I say it’s better to get your work done early and then play, [...]