Our plans for 2010-2011 are still a work in progress! But, my curriculum plans are ALWAYS a work in progress and always written in pencil. Somehow I’d thought that by the time I had high school students we’d be somewhat set in our ways. I was very wrong! Flower Child (12) is entering 7th grade. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Sonlight’
NOT Back to School Blog Hop ~ Curriculum Week
Posted in Austin, Flower Child, Princess, tagged algebra, art, Charlotte Mason, Harmony Fine Arts, Notgrass, Saxon Math, SL Core 6, SL Psychology, Sonlight, teens on Monday, 2 August 2010 | 3 Comments »
Reinventing the Wheel
Posted in Flower Child, tagged 2010-2011, high school, schedule, SL Core 1, SL Core 2, SL Core 200, SL Core 300, SL Core 400, SL Core 6, SL Core 7, Sonlight on Saturday, 3 July 2010 | 1 Comment »
I’m reinventing the wheel again with this World History planning. I conversely enjoy it one minute while I’m tearing my hair out the next and I’m starting to wonder if this is a personality flaw. Truthfully, I’ve always enjoyed doing things my own way. At the same time I love Sonlight. Or maybe I just [...]
Five weeks and counting down…
Posted in Flower Child, General, tagged maps, notebooking pages, schedule, SL Core 6, Sonlight on Thursday, 1 July 2010 | 1 Comment »
Yup. Five weeks until school starts in Southern Kentucky. Six weeks until we start school, but only five weeks to plan since we’ll have company the first week of August. This is the most time intensive part of home educating for me. Choosing courses, pulling together resources, plotting the schedule, and making sure that everything [...]
One Thousand Gifts
Posted in Enriching Everyday Life, tagged Aislin, Alex, Austin, chickens, coffee, faith, gratitude, life school, one thousand gifts, pets, Sonlight on Monday, 17 May 2010 | Leave a Comment »
faith tracy austin alexandra (princess) aislin (flower child) muddy acres – charlotte mason mecca music psalms the color purple mobile phones home school dark chocolate mt. olivet friends Sonlight piano lucy, gracie, goose, veronica, socks, sophie, angel, jasmine, fred, georgie, roxy, sugar, augustus, and however many chickens call this place home today bird feeders my [...]
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 [...]
Time for American Government!
Posted in General, tagged American Government, SL Core 400, Sonlight on Monday, 22 March 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Cool! A difficult choice. I love difficult homeschooling choices. Well, I love RESEARCHING difficult homeschooling choices. I hate making decisions. Austin finished Sonlight Core 300 on March 12th. Ahead of schedule! Now it’s time to move on to his last social studies requirement for graduation: American Government. I have narrowed it down to Sonlight Core [...]
Life is NEVER dull…
Posted in Meanderings, On the Farm, tagged aspirations, blogging, chores, health, NCHBC, school, Sonlight, spring, take a hike, vegetarian journey, whining on Sunday, 21 March 2010 | 1 Comment »
Spring has arrived in southern Kentucky. I know because my eyes, nose, and ears tell me so. My eyes are burning, my nose is running, and my ears are clogged. :p Who knew that those things could actually bring joy to a person’s heart? Thankfully, God gifted some of us on this earth with the [...]
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 [...]
Our Story ~ Year 1
Posted in General, tagged 4-Day Schedule, Horizons Math, Our Story, Saxon Math, SL Core 3, SL Core 4, Sonlight on Wednesday, 13 January 2010 | 1 Comment »
After spending a month memorizing reading every homeschool curriculum catalog I could get my hands on, I made our first decisions. For God So Loved the World, a unit study published by Christian Cottage Schools was going to be the backbone of our year. (Yes, right from the beginning I knew our school would be [...]
Looking Back ~ The First Decade of the Millenium
Posted in Meanderings, tagged Alex, asthma, Austin, basketball, confirmation, culture shock, decade recap, everyday life, faith journey, home education, LCMS, life school, moving, retired veterans, school, Sonlight, sports, Type 1 Diabetes on Thursday, 31 December 2009 | 1 Comment »
My friend Sherri asked this question on Facebook: How has your life changed in the last 10 yrs? On January 14th, 2000 I worked my very last day outside of the home. I gave up an excellent salary and a nice office to stay home with my three children. At that time they were 2 [...]
Saturday Smörgåsbord
Posted in Saturday Smörgåsbord, tagged blogging, Crunchy Con, Schleich, Sonlight on Saturday, 2 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BLESSED…. Do you WANT to have your eyes opened or do you prefer to not know? ~ Hat tip: Renee at Steppin’ Heavenward Mary Grace wrote about Schleich animals on BOOKS and BAIRNS. ~ This totally cracked me up because my 11yo has a habit of nesting in her closet with her Schleich animals. There [...]
Another reason to celebrate on March 17, 2009!
Posted in General, tagged Catalog Fever, Sonlight on Tuesday, 17 March 2009 | 1 Comment »
Patty’s Day Sonlight Catalog Video . . . . Oh… And Happy St. Patrick’s Day! .
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 [...]
Inspiration for a Sonlight Mom
Posted in General, tagged Inspiration, Skylark, Sonlight, unschooling, William Blake on Wednesday, 31 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The School Boy by William Blake I love to rise in a summer morn, When the birds sing on every tree; The distant huntsman winds his horn, And the skylark sings with me: O what sweet company! But to go to school in a summer morn, – O it drives all joy away! Under a [...]
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