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This Week’s Homeschool Highlights (Book Sale and MathScore)

  We had full week.  On Monday we had company, and did very little schoolwork.  We even enjoyed the first campfire of the year and roasted marshmallows.   On Tuesday it snowed, and the Little Misses played outside a lot.  In fact, they made a snowman before breakfast!  By noon they had broken it up and […]

Summer Learning and Project Contracts

   This week’s Blog Cruise question is, “Do you school during the summer? What do you do? Why or why not?”   I think learning is a natural part of life and can hardly be avoided.  Obviously, then, we continue to learn during the summer, even though we do not do formal schoolwork.  We read, […]

This Week’s Homeschool Highlights (The Elements)

    This was a crazy learning week since we had to fit all the schoolwork in around other important events: preparing for visitors, shopping for clothes, special baking, and…a broken collarbone.   Even so, enormous amounts of work got done, and the children finished several of their books.  Miss 7 finished her reader, More […]

We All Need to Learn Obedience

  This week’s Blog Cruise question is, ‘How can I homeschool if my child won’t obey me?’     I don’t think you can do so effectively.  Of course, no child has perfect obedience—just as no adult does—but in our homeschool many of the difficulties are either due to trying to learn things too early or […]

This Week’s Homeschool Highlights (Dutch and Astronomy)

  Well, we finally started our third trimester!  We’re a bit slow this year.   (Sigh.)   This week we—all of the children, even Miss 7—finished  Rosetta Stone Dutch, Level 1.  Mind you, Miss 7 and Miss 9 did only the listening and speaking components.  This week I also started a Dutch read aloud for Miss […]