Category:Homeschooling
Letting the Kids Take Over
Well, we are on our six-week break one-week break following our second six-week period of school. (Twelve weeks down!!! Yay!!!) I think we were all ready for this one! Overall, I think it was a productive period. I didn’t get a lot of resistance about school, except in the IEW that I started with H. And that …
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Is this the one?
The new writing program has arrived! I’ve had a lot of experience with IEW through our homeschool co-op, and K is taking it at co-op this year. H doesn’t really seem to like the approach that Writing Strands uses, so we’re going to try All Things Fun & Fascinating and see how it goes. Which …
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Assignment Books
We are revamping the way we plan things once again! It’s just a minor change this time though. Instead of directly writing the girls’ daily assignments into their assignment books, I decided Post-it notes might be a better way to go. This allows me to easily take an assignment that was partially finished, or one …
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Learning Outside the Box Blog Hop – Sports (Week #1)
Welcome to the first Learning Outside the Box Blog Hop post! Let me start off by saying that I came up with six topics and put them down on note cards. I had my daughter draw one, and of course she drew the hardest one: home improvement/home organization projects. I didn’t want to throw that …
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First Day of School 2013
Our first day of school was an incredibly productive one with minimal complaints! We went over the new “daily binders” first, which currently contain calendars, an attendance sheet, “I Can” lists (whicht can be used as a general guideline of what to expect to learn over the next year), and temperature graphs. I also purchased …
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Blog Hop Announcement
I’m super excited to announce that I’m going to be hosting my first blog hop! I’m still trying to iron out all the technical details, but here are the details of the hop. It’s going to be semi-themed. The posts need to be about things that are educational for your children without being academic in …
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Planning Methods, Part II
If you missed the first part of my planning system, here’s the link. Once I get my lesson plans written onto my six-week planner sheets, I put them into our V Planner, which is an elaborate Excel spreadsheet. We will be using V Planner V3 this year. It’s different from the one we used last …
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My Planning Methods
I’ve been putting off this post for a long time, since I know it’s destined to be a long, detailed one. However, it’s that time of year when the homeschool forums are all abuzz about which planner type to use: computer program, iPad app, spreadsheet, or good old-fashioned pencil and paper. So, here I am, …
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Getting Prepped for Science
I finally did it! I finally purchased the Elemental Science (ES) Biology for the Logic Stage ebook! I am really excited to start this program in a few weeks, and I think that K is, too. We will probably have to begin the program without a microscope, but I hope to obtain one soon enough that …
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3rd-Grade Mini Office
In light of recent frustration over multiplication facts, I have realized that updated versions of the girls’ mini offices may be a fantastic idea! They made some a few years ago and used them briefly, but at the time, they consisted of things like colors, numbers, and the printed alphabet for H and addition, coins, and …
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