It’s hard to believe that we’ve already been doing schoolwork for 5 weeks…as well as reading, playing games, volunteering, harvesting the garden, and dejunking the house. In our homeschool… Miss 16 is busy with her math (Singapore New Elementary Math 4B), physics (Apologia), and an online AP English Language and Composition course. Taking online courses […]
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Review: Surfing the Net: Science
These days it is important to know how to search the internet effectively. Surfing the Net: Science is designed to teach this skill early enough to benefit a student’s whole school career. Aimed at grades 3-6, Surfing the Net: Science teaches science based on standards in most US states, but its primary focus is to teach students […]
Week 1 Wrap Up
This was our first week of school, and quite a lot happened: –bookwork, from math to history to science. –experiments, like the above one from Apologia’s General Science. –online work in the form of MathScore. –reading books like Crazy Horse, Augustine’s On Christian Doctrine, and Paradise Lost as well as lighter fare by Enid Blyton and Josephine Tey. […]
August Wrap Up: Puppy, Raspberries to Give Away, Timers for Effectiveness
In our lives this month… So, here we are at the end of another month full of sunshine, rain, fun, and work. August’s highlight was our new puppy, the sweetest little fellow with such soft ears and a great desire to please…most of the time. He is difficult to photograph, though. In our homeschool … […]
Our Curriculum
We have been homeschooling for many years, and each year I try to make an individualized learning plan for each child. Here are some of these plans, as well as some of the curriculum changes we made along the way: Grades 9/10 and 11/12–relaxed yet academic learning (2017-2018) Grades 7, 9, 12 (2014-2015) Grades 6,8, and […]