In my life this week… spring has arrived! It’s warm. The snow is melting. Everywhere there’s water, rushing, melting, ice-jamming, and never stopping. What a blessed change! In our homeschool this week… children kept disappearing. One minute they’d be working hard, and the next they would be gone. Where? Outside, of course! Spring’s call is […]
Weekly Wrap Up
Weekly Wrap Up
In my life this week… Life has seemed relentlessly busy, although I’m not sure why. Hopefully there will be some downtime this weekend to mull it over. In our homeschool this week… The children moved ahead hugely. Since Miss 8 now reads comfortably, my homeschool workload is considerably reduced. Independence is a good thing. Miss […]
Weekly Wrap Up: Lots to be Thankful For
Some weeks, looking back, it seems like all we did was schoolwork. This week we’ve done so much else as well as a huge amount of formal schoolwork. First of all, there was the music: Bach’s Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach, played on the organ, various Mozart, Handel, and Telemann pieces played on the recorder, […]
Weekly Wrap Up
We had two days of spring this week! Last night, however, the wind howled and shook the house until the windows almost rattled, and now it?s chilly again. Miss 10 finished her week?s worth of independent work by Tuesday. After struggling all year to be finished by Friday and rarely succeeding, this was a real […]