Category Archives: Planning
Simplify
My goal this year is to simplify everything and this includes letting go of, or limiting inefficient websites. Facebook is inefficient. You get the cute posts, but don’t get the … Continue reading
Daily Plans
After 6 weeks of school, we are taking a Fall Break. The boys do their school work with Kelly’s work schedule — 5 days and get 3 days off which … Continue reading
Books for Family History
I found these possibilities through the Scholastic BookWizard and Amazon searches. If we like a title, I will post about it after we read them. Minnesota Chapter Books: The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich (P) The … Continue reading
Curricula Order 2012-2013
This is much simpler. We have a lot of living books for the other subjects. This is our core for first and third grade. These should arrive in September. Updated … Continue reading
Books, Books, Books
I asked Chandler what he loves and he said reading and math. I asked him if there was anything else he wanted to learn about this next year and he … Continue reading
List of Loves
Hunter’s list of his favorite things, as dictated to me this morning: Hunting Fishing Building Puzzles and Patterns Woodworking Science Math Games Pumpkin Pie Listening to Stories Telling Stories Cooking … Continue reading
Reading Plans and Progress
We had a wonderful weekend here in Oregon. We went to visit Angie and her boys at Regatta Park on Devil’s Lake. Remember that stack of Abeka Readers as our … Continue reading
Books and Things
Hunter 2nd Grade Singapore 2A — 3 pages per day Living Math Read alouds or audiobooks: Dragon Rider, Chronicles of Narnia, The Hatchet Narration The Ordinary Parents Guide to Teaching … Continue reading
Homeschooling This Week and Beyond
I have some good news on the homeschooling front. This week Hunter read “Ten Apples Up On Top” by Theo LeSieg (other books in this reading level) without hesitation or … Continue reading
Our School Room
I thought you might like a peek into our school room. I had fun editing the photos on picnik.com and I think the effects are pretty cool. I did nothing to … Continue reading
Summer Plans & Fall Plans
A friend asked me my plans for school next year and I almost drew a blank since I’m in summer mode. I’m trying to keep things simple. Here is my … Continue reading
Interesting Interests
Yesterday, in the van while driving I simply asked, “Hunter, what kinds of things are you interested in?” I might have said as an after thought, “What do you want … Continue reading
Our Original Book List
As we move forward with our Charlotte Mason education, I thought it would be helpful to review my original book selections and see how many of them we read in … Continue reading
Scratch Planning
I am scratching homeschool planning off of my Mommy To Do list! We are going to use our Project Journal again since it works amazingly well for us. Our sons … Continue reading
New First Grade Schedule
I typed up a routine/rhythm based on the way our days flow. The white band is the new main lesson block from our new Waldorf curriculum. We already started with the stories and forms and … Continue reading
First Grade Plans
Kelly and I have a basic plan for First Grade. We discussed extra curricula such as Five in a Row, Enki and Oak Meadow’s Second Grade. I am so tempted but Kelly feels strongly that our children … Continue reading
Neglect
I am neglecting this blog or taking a break depending on how you look at it — tidal blogging. We got back from Echoes in Time last Saturday. We had … Continue reading
Camping and Nature Study
We are looking forward to camping this year! I got a little carried away with ideas for the whole family. Some of these ideas came from The Kid’s Nature Book. The links below are more detailed than … Continue reading
Charlotte Mason Support Group Meeting
On Thursday night, we had our second local support group meeting. There were four of us attending. Nine people are interested, which is a nice number for our small town. … Continue reading
