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Reading Week

Nov 22nd, 2010
by Annie Kate.
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Well, last week was our annual reading week.  We took hundreds of books out of the library, read many of them, and also really exercised our right to start a book and then decide it wasn’t for us.  It was a wonderful adventure, one that we look forward to every year. We would have spent […]

Weekly Wrap-Up: Mostly Writing

Nov 6th, 2010
by Annie Kate.
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Miss 12 started her NaNoWriMo novel on Monday.  She writes a few hours a day, with a Huguenot history book on her lap.  Occasionally she makes forays onto Wikipedia to learn more about French geography and history.  When she found the NaNoWriMo word count goals for different grades she was shocked to see that her […]

Everyday Life and Two Nature Walks

Oct 30th, 2010
by Annie Kate.
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Wow, what a week!  We did bookwork, quite a lot of it in fact, as well as a lot of other things. Mr. 15 had a friend over for two days.  This young man does computer learning, so he was busy with his laptop all morning.  No mess, no books, no answer keys, no fuss.  […]

Of Books, Bookwork, and the Rideau Trail

Oct 23rd, 2010
by Annie Kate.
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This has been an incredibly varied week.  Lacking the energy to do much physical work, I sat down much of the time, homeschooling and working at my computer to the point where I feel guilty.  The children did a lot of bookwork, and we’re slowly catching up to where we had planned to be by […]

Homeschooling Success…Despite Distractions

Oct 16th, 2010
by Annie Kate.
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Well, we had another week of distractions like Thanksgiving, harvesting, preserving, cleaning up the garden, and more, but we had some major homeschooling breakthroughs despite that. Miss 8 can read!  She whizzes through the instructions in her workbook, hardly stumbles in her reader, picks up easy reader books for fun, and comments on what I’m […]

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