Posted in musings on Jul 30th, 2006 1 Comment »
As a homeschooling mom who spends most of her time with her children, I was very saddened when I read this article linked from another blog about a mom who is bored by her children.
And then I read this article and had to smile. For every story that is like the first, there is another, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 28th, 2006 1 Comment »
Today is the birthday of one of our favorite authors, Beatrix Potter.
Joshua and I have become fans through her own sweet stories and illustrations and also through The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter by Susan Wittig Albert.
Posted in fun stuff on Jul 28th, 2006 4 Comments »
Right now my son has a friend over. They are playing floor hockey while playing a game that my husband, son and I came up with while camping in Zion National Park. They are having a great time giggling and guessing.
Want to play along? Here are the rules.
- everyone each takes a turn, one at […]
Posted in curriculum on Jul 28th, 2006 No Comments »
Everywhere I go in the homeschooling blogosphere lately people are pondering and discussing ideas. Ideas of plans for their school year. I too have been contemplating what our own studies will look like this year. What path will we choose? Will it look similar to last year or do we want to take a path […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 27th, 2006 2 Comments »
Our Summer Weekly Wall is over for now as mom is too busy planning our yearly studies. I am also trying to decide on a way to fit the wall into our regular studies.
If your interested, you can read more about”the wall” here. You can read a more detailed explanation here.The idea for the wall […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 26th, 2006 No Comments »
Our Great Books Reading Partnership has completed reading Mortimer J. Adler’s, How to Read a Book. My notes are finally completed and posted.
We have now begun, The Well-Educated Mind by Susan Bauer.
Come join us :)
Posted in celebrating the seasons, nature, fun stuff on Jul 26th, 2006 5 Comments »
This past weekend we took a camping vacation to Zion National Park in Utah, three hours from where we live in Las Vegas. What a beautiful National Park!
We had a wonderful campsite-
Gorgeous views -
Fantastic animal encounters -
Fun activites -
And of course,as always, birding -
Posted in nature on Jul 19th, 2006 2 Comments »
Nature study at our house recently.
First, we’d like to introduce you to Franklin, our red-painted turtle. Franklin is six years old and was so named in honor of the Franklin in the children’s book series which my son loved when he was younger. It seems though, Franklin, turned out to be Franklina […]
Posted in curriculum on Jul 10th, 2006 2 Comments »
Latin -
a posse as esse - from possibility to actuality
German -
Haben Sie eine sichere Reise. - Have a safe trip.
This is big brother’s wish for his 16 year old sister who is now visiting back home in Cincinnati, OH for the next two weeks. He is the very reason too that she is there […]
Posted in curriculum on Jul 6th, 2006 1 Comment »
I have had a few new visitors who have left some very nice comments. I thank all of you and have been enjoying browsing your own blogs. There is some amazing stuff out there in the blogoshpere :)
I have also had a few questions concerning “the Wall”. An explanation of how it came about can […]
