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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New To-Do List (which is actually a chart!)
In the interest of bringing better organization to my life, I typed “post it to do list” into Pinterest. (And, let’s face it, I also wanted to play around with my brand new Pinterest account!)There were a lot of great ideas on there, including this one, which ended up being basically what I did, except …
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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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Wordless Wednesday – August 7, 2013
Kid’s Shelves – K (blue shelf), H (pink shelf), J (learning toys) Reorganized shelves Projects from co-op (coral, keepsake box, Native American headdress, Native American dart, flower from my toddler) Supply boxes, magazine holders for workbooks and teacher’s guides, school store items, newspapers for arts and crafts
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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Wordless Wednesday – July 31, 2013
Before pictures of the school room shelving units: