Well we are back from our trip to visit family for the holidays. Really looking forward to getting back on track with our schooling. I feel like we pretty much had the whole month of December off~ we did visit The San Diego Natural History Museum while we were down there. My girls love museums, thank goodness, and so do I. They had a really cool exhibit on Darwinism. We also explored the beach.
It is so nice to be home though, I spent part of yesterday looking at some homeschooling books, trying to re-motivative myself for this semester. Those Rebecca Rupp books are so great. I would like to make some small changes, want to loosen up a bit on the schedule, and try to work in a bit more exploratory learning, more kindergarden fun!
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Happy New Year~
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Middle Ages Finally~
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
Fall is here~
The Woolly Bear caterpillars are everywhere!
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Saturday, September 12, 2009
Classification, my favorite......
Things might have made a lot more sense.
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Labels: homeschooling, nature study
Friday, September 11, 2009
First week report~
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Labels: homeschooling
Monday, September 7, 2009
Well It's Happening.........
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Labels: homeschooling
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Sunny Days!
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Labels: Home arts, nature study
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Saturday, May 9, 2009
States Sofia has visited
visited 13 states (26%)
Create your own visited map of The United States or another interesting project
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Back to Reality
It was so special to be with my dear friend Ana and her family again. They showed us so many lovely places, and I really enjoyed Massachusetts (gotta love those dunkin donuts iced coffees). We also were lucky enough to go to NYC, DC, and Virginia. More on all that later.....
We have been gradually getting back into the swing of things around here and I have personally been waiting for a bit of good weather to get outside. I have some things that just must go in the ground.
The girls are having a great time being back with all their doll stuff, and Sofia was over the moon to be back at ballet on Monday. The house is upside down, so I really have not been knitting much, will get back to it soon.
Can't believe the school year is almost over, and then I will have a 3rd grader and a kindergartner on my hands. These years are moving so fast. I cant believe I am still homeschooling, thought it was just going to be for a year......and we just keep going.
So happy I am able to be with these girls all the time so I don't miss too much.
Need to do some catching up with our schoolwork though, had a nice long break due to the trip. We all learned so much though, went to many museums, including the amazing American Museum on Natural History in Central Park, Plimoth Plantation, DC, Williamsburg......I am sure something sunk in.
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Labels: Vacation
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Cape Cod, Massachucetts
eating and drinking coffee
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Labels: nature study, Vacation
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
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Labels: Home arts, nature study
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
The Promise of Spring
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Saturday, February 14, 2009
The Great Backyard Bird Count
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Labels: nature study
Sunday, February 8, 2009
A little update
School has been going good. I am finally coming to terms with the fact that everything is never going to get done. As usual my expectations are always high, and I am realizing it is quality not quantity that matters.
For example I had a stack of things I wanted to do on thursday, (latin, language arts, science), the math got done at least, and for some reason we began talking about right triangles, I ran upstairs to grab a geometry template I had, and she was off. She spent and hour making all the shapes with the stencil and labeling them. I took the opportunity to read What's your angle Pythagoras? aloud, and that was it. An official geometry rabbit trail.
I absolutely adore when something comes up and I have the materials, "in house" like that.
Next week I will pull the Montessori three part cards on triangles and let her play with some shape models I have.
We also have been really interested in what's going on with the birds in our backyard.
There is a great website, where you can post and keep track of migrations of all sorts of thing. A great way to teach about data collection.
check it out here~
Bye for now.
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Labels: homeschooling, math, nature study