As the school year winds down, I find myself mentally pondering the highs and lows and trying to figure out improvement strategies for next year. Overall, I’ve been pretty happy with how the year went. We went with Tapestry of Grace for history/Bible/literature/church history/geography. It’s a lovely classical, integrated curriculum that winds all those things [...]
Happily, today is one of those together days. Georgie got a 96% on his grammar test, and all three of the girls got 100% on their spelling tests. Yay! I teach good. Yeah sure, I suppose they may have had something to do with it.
This is Kyra’s first year of school (she’s five, turns six [...]
After I wrote up my schedule on Tuesday, hated it by Wednesday, and rewrote the entire thing on Thursday, I spent a little time thinking. It seemed to me that the reason I was having trouble scheduling was because I was basing my schedule off the schedule the kids were using at school before.
Not knowing [...]
Rachel’s Educational Philosophy in No Particular Order, 4/17/09
General Philosophy:
Children don’t know what God will call them to be when they grow up (no matter how sure today they are that they are going to be an astronaut), so they need exposure to as much as possible. No one likes subjects that they don’t like. No [...]
Okay, so I am officially starting homeschool with the kiddos this coming Monday (4/20/09). Yikes! Actually, I’m feeling pretty ok about it. Got the schedule all sorted out. See?
What, you can’t read that? Well, click on it and it will take you to the bigger version. For term study this time we are doing a [...]
Kyra’s educational voyage began today, and boy was she happy! She’s been asking me to start doing school with her ever since her nap schedule dropped from every day to every other day a few months ago, and as I was browsing through my computer stuff today I discovered a whole stash of old alphabet [...]
Yes, it’s another blog for me (I am slightly blog-happy. See sidebar for the list). After much discussion, worry, and prayer, we have decided to begin homeschooling our kids as of mid-April 2009.
For the last three years, they have attended Zera Hall in Oregon City, OR where my friend Amy Hayes has done sort [...]