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Weekly Wrap Up

Reading Week

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

This was Remembrance Week.  We finished reading aloud a book about the Nazi occupation in the Netherlands, wrote and drew about the past, and attended Remembrance Day ceremonies.  At these ceremonies, I always think about my Dutch parents, freed by Canadian soldiers.  I am intensely grateful to the veterans and those who suffered with them, […]

Weekly Wrap-Up: Mostly Writing

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

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

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 […]