Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'
The dowitchers, that is. A couple of times each year, in the fall and in the spring, our little 30+ acre wetland gets visited by hundreds of dowitchers! I posted about their arrival last September, and we’re excited to see that they’re back! They’re accompanied by a large number of Least Sandpipers and quite a [...]
I just found this… The Elements: Ingredients of the Universe (HT to Dragons in the Flower Bed) and it looks REALLY good!! I wonder if I could do this with the girls next year. The state of California says that 8th graders should be doing physical science, but I blew off their standards for this [...]
Time to start making plans, as we finish up stuff for this year (or more likely, just get plain tired of what we were doing and start looking forward to a change)… and get income tax refunds. I’m not sure if we’ll actually be able to school through the summer, though I’d like [...]
We found this little guy along the base of our wrought iron fence this afternoon. He was on the wetland side of our property, and had probably hopped across from the lake. We studied him for a bit, then put him back in the brush by the lake so he’d have some cover.
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Okay, so we’ve only got 9 weeks or so left in the school year, and this is the first time I’ve actually decided to put up a weekly report. Youngest to oldest…
DA (1st grade)
Progress in Mathematics, Grade 1, pg. 311-320
K12 Phonics 1 – Unit 18, lesson 5 and Unit 19 Lessons 1-4 (Contractions [...]