Or… How Mama yelled at the tee-VEE and got kicked out of the room. We all sat down and watched No Reservations on Encore the night the electricity came back on. The movie is about a New York City executive chef (Kate) who must take in her niece (Zoe) after her sister’s untimely death in [...]
Posts Tagged ‘public school’
Homeschool that girl!
Posted in General, tagged learning styles, life school, public school, traditional school, unschooling on Saturday, 31 January 2009 | 2 Comments »
History!
Posted in General, tagged history, public school, reading, Sonlight on Wednesday, 21 January 2009 | 2 Comments »
Jess at Making Home has a great post today about my favorite subject and my favorite curriculum to teach that subject! Hop over and read Random Thoughts on History & Homeschooling. The first time I read the Sonlight catalog I knew we were going to have a very long relationship. I love history. And that [...]
Priceless!
Posted in General, tagged life, life school, public school, traditional school on Monday, 5 January 2009 | 1 Comment »
Thank you, Lord, for providing the means for us to home educate! My mother-in-law and friend left this life on January 2nd. Because we live four hours away, the gift of home education allowed us to spend much more time with her over the last two years than if my dc would have been in [...]
How mama found her groove and it turned out to be a big ole rut!
Posted in General, tagged change, life school, public school, ruts on Sunday, 12 October 2008 | 2 Comments »
Some time ago I asked my fellow Sonlight forum members how long it took to ‘find your groove’. The answers varied from a few weeks to ‘not yet’. Personally, answered that I found it during our third year. In this moment of retrospect, I now believe we found it right away and have got better [...]
Life Schooling
Posted in General, tagged life school, public school, schedule on Sunday, 5 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last week was a long week. A very long week. Next week will be more of the same. It was the kind of week that happens to other people and you wonder, ‘How did they get through that?’ When it happens to you, you find that you get through it one step at a time. [...]
