Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'
So I’ve been keeping this blog for a long time, just for my own notes, and recently, I’ve started thinking that maybe it’s time to split up the homeschooling posts into a separate homeschool blog. Originally, I started blogging here for myself, after migrating from livejournal, where I blogged a lot about my grad school [...]
“It killed off all the Romans, and now it’s killing ME!!!!”
My dear English cousin taught my kids this chant last year, and my middle two chanted it over and over all week long. (Thanks John!! Grrr….hehe)
We started school again this week, and although it doesn’t seem like we got much done amidst a variety of [...]
I watch The Daily Show fairly regularly, but somehow I managed to miss the fact that one of my absolute favorite undergraduate professors, Brian Fagan, made a recent appearance to talk about his book The Great Warming, which incidentally, I read within days after its release. Dr. Fagan taught the very first archaeology class I [...]
KS and I both had dental appointments this morning, so we dropped off the other three kids at Grandma’s house. My hygienist has a daughter who is also in 7th grade, though she’s a bit older than KS. She revealed that her daughter has to spend at least 2 hours a night on “language arts” [...]
Sorry I was off the grid for a bit. I’ve been trying to cut down on my online time.
I thought I’d share these links. If you’re a geek like I am (and you know who you are), you might enjoy these just as much as I do. My daughter and I spent a [...]
After some thought and discussion about history, KS and I decided to spend the remainder of this year on British history, moving into the middle ages, borrowing heavily from Ambleside Online’s Year 7 booklist. If she stays in our program, which is based on a neo-classical model (a la The Well-Trained Mind) for ninth grade, [...]
Now that we’re going back to our previous charter, KS and I are making plans for the remainder of this school year. Here’s the rough draft.
Our daily subjects:
Math: K12’s Pre-Algebra B – We’ll stick with this since it’s working.
Latin: Henle I – KS has four years of Latin (Minimus and Oxford Latin), and [...]
This week, KS and I made the decision to ditch CAVA and return to the charter school we were previously enrolled in for 6 years. She’s really missed her friends and classes, and we both missed our advisor, who’d become a member of our family after all these years! I also missed the support of [...]
Hmmm… I wonder if I could pull off sending a copy of this with most of my Christmas cards this year?
The Bitter Homeschooler’s Wish List
We started school this week, and I’m already ready for next summer’s vacation!
Declan is a handful. He’s completely forgotten our school day routine, and just doesn’t understand why the older kids can’t play with him all the time. He’s also at the age where he was no interest in his toys, and only wants whatever [...]