Hey! Wait just a minute…. I see something familiar… Those are MY boots! Alas, who can get mad at faces as sweet as these? Wait. Forget that last question.
Posts Tagged ‘Flower Child’
What?!
Posted in On the Farm, tagged Flower Child, Princess, sledding, winter on Saturday, 22 January 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A Day in the Life…
Posted in Home Education, On the Farm, tagged Ancient Rome, Austin, Flower Child, Lazy Days, Princess, Saxon Math, Tapestry of Grace on Tuesday, 16 November 2010 | 1 Comment »
After a VERY late basketball game last night, practice was cancelled today. Hooray! Now we get a lazy, rainy day at home. No rush to get school done before we have to leave and time for the little things that make life fun. We have a blazing fire going in the stove, but the back [...]
And we're off!
Posted in Flower Child, tagged art, Charlotte Mason, Flower Child, Harmony Fine Arts, nature study, schedule on Monday, 14 June 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Flower Child and I started our summer schedule today. She’s read about mosquitoes and is drawing a Van Gogh in pastels. LOL! Yes, she’s already doing things in her own order. We’ve been listening to Handel’s Water Music for the last week, specifically the Masterpiece Theater… oops!… Allo Hornpipe selection. I got a late start [...]
Charlotte Mason and Summer Fun!
Posted in Flower Child, tagged art, Charlotte Mason, Flower Child, music, nature study on Friday, 4 June 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In an effort to get back to the basics – the Charlotte Mason basics, that is – I decided to use Harmony Art Mom’s summer nature, music, and art studies with Flower Child for the next eight weeks. Should be fun! Looking forward to learning about Vincent Van Gogh and George Handel.
Call me an unschooling drop-out!
Posted in General, tagged basketball, change, Charlotte Mason, Flower Child, high school, learning styles, life school, Princess, schedule, Sonlight, teens, unschooling on Tuesday, 27 April 2010 | 1 Comment »
Interestingly, Sharon Astyk blogged about unschooling this week. She does touch on some of the things that were troubling me. I still like many of the ideas about unschooling, but it just doesn’t ‘feel’ right in our home school. Maybe it’s about me and my control issues and maybe that’s not a bad thing. I [...]
Math Change
Posted in General, tagged BJU, Flower Child, Horizons, Math on Tuesday, 6 April 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I ranted last week about Horizons and Flower Child. She hates it. And I mean *really* hates it. The repetitiveness is a huge struggle for her. Honestly, I am thankful that she managed to make it as far as she did with Horizons. I knew in the beginning that Singapore was a better fit for [...]
Visiting Russia Today…
Posted in General, tagged Flower Child, SL Core 5, Sonlight, unschooling on Tuesday, 26 January 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We are cooking Russian today! Sometimes I jokingly refer to Sonlight’s Core 5 – Eastern Hemisphere Explorer as ‘Cooking Around the World’. On the menu? Russian Egg Soup (Flower Child is obsesses with Egg Drop Soup. She tries to find a recipe from every country we visit.) Apple Pie – This is more like a [...]
Our Story ~ Year 2
Posted in General, tagged Charlotte Mason, Flower Child, Our Story, Princess, SL Core 2, Sonlight, traditional school on Friday, 15 January 2010 | 1 Comment »
If our first year was the year of Speed Racer, our second year was the year of Molasses Slow. After being warned by many homeschool ‘experts’ that it is impossible to find the perfect curriculum during your first year, I decided to use The Well Trained Mind for the older two and send Flower Child [...]
Sweet Sisters
Posted in General, tagged Flower Child, Princess on Saturday, 2 January 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Letting Go – Week #6
Posted in General, tagged Flower Child, life school, unschooling on Wednesday, 2 December 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’re still hanging on. It feels strange and completely foreign to me and it’s easy to see why some families give up early on in the game. It’s unsettling! Especially after homeschooling for nine years with Sonlight only – there hasn’t been any deviation. I’m sure the added stress of our Holiday – Thanksgiving, Christmas, [...]
Early School Days
Posted in General, tagged Flower Child, life school, Our Story, Princess, Rooster, SL Core 3 on Friday, 21 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This picture is my favorite. I’ve wanted to post it for a long time, but first I had to sift through all the old-fashioned photographs in boxes and FIND it! And… because they’re so cute… Even earlier school days:
Math Class
Posted in General, tagged algebra, Flower Child, Math, Princess, sisters, teens on Tuesday, 20 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I couldn’t resist snapping this picture. Big sister and little sister sitting side by side on big sister’s bed, working on their math. Flower Child has an old laptop sitting in front of her (it doesn’t even turn on) so she can be just like Princess with her laptop (which is running Saxon Teacher).
Finding the New Normal for 2009
Posted in General, tagged Charlotte Mason, Flower Child, high school, Lifepacs, nature study, Outdoor Hour, schedule on Monday, 19 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, there are a LOT of ‘new normals’ at our house. I honestly don’t know if we are the insane minority in the world of home education or if everyone else is like this and just doesn’t talk about it. Goals have been discussed. Lessons have been planned. Books have been burned set aside for [...]
Light bulb moment: 4-day School Week
Posted in General, tagged 4-Day Schedule, Flower Child, SL Core 4 on Wednesday, 24 September 2008 | 1 Comment »
Whew. I’ve been having a lot of those light bulb moments lately. With the teens hectic basketball schedule I always feel like Flower Child and I are rushing through school. Probably because we ARE! As I was looking at her Sonlight Instructor’s Guide today the 4-day Reader Schedule popped out at me. Why? When her [...]
Light Bulb Moment: Cursive Writing
Posted in General, tagged cursive writing, Flower Child on Thursday, 18 September 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yup. Had one of those moments this morning. I’ve been unsuccessfully trying to teach Flower Child how to write in cursive for the last two years. I brought out the book a handful of times during the year end up tossing it after only a couple of weeks. She’s now in 5th grade and can [...]
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