Archive for March, 2008
Posted on Monday, March 31st, 2008 at
Profiling Home Educators Monday, March 31
Describe yourself, your family or one of your children. What is it like to be home educated in your family? What is “normal” for you?
Describing myself: Ridiculiously unorganized curriculum junkie
Describing Sarah: Headstrong Mother Hen
Describing Kelly: Sports Phreak
Descibing Carl: Homeschool pep squad leader…
What is “normal” for us… everything above.
Ok… to explain. [...]
Posted on Sunday, March 30th, 2008 at
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Looking Back Sunday, March 30
Share your personal history…before you were a home educator. What was life like? Think about things you miss and things you and your family have gained.
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Before we started homeschooling, I was working as an assistant bookkeeper for a nationwide chain of truck stops. The girls were busy with school. Carl [...]
Posted on Saturday, March 29th, 2008 at
Awesome links today!!
I hope you have your feeders ready, the hummingbirds are migrating north!
http://www.hummingbirds.net/map.html
A free summer science course is being offered through Quick Study Labs. I signed Kelly up for it, I hope she likes it. She’s a science hound anyhow, so I’m sure she will.
http://www.quickstudylabs.com
We Didn’t Start The Fire - A 50 Year History [...]
Posted on Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 at
We found out today that the trip to the Federal Court House has been rescheduled! I’m so excited as I think the girls are going to have fun with this. Now I just have to come up with some great links about the things we’ll be doing so they’re not totally in the dark.
Here’s our [...]
Posted on Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 at
What made you home school the kids?
We started homeschooling because of a teachers exasperation actually. When Kelly was in 3rd grade (3/4 of the way through the year), I asked how math went that day. She told us the teacher said to put their heads on the desk because “if they weren’t listening, she wasn’t teaching.” This wasn’t [...]
Posted on Monday, March 24th, 2008 at
God love them…
A friend of Sarah’s told her that another area church is going to Young Christians’ Weekend at Silver Dollar City in Branson and that everyone is invited. I asked her several times for the information and didn’t get it (asked Sarah to get it from her, I mean). Well, I called and we [...]
Posted on Friday, March 21st, 2008 at
So this weekend, we’re doing a few things to celebrate the love that Christ had for us. The girls had never heard of Resurrection Eggs before, so we made up a version without the egg, just by putting our stuff in a bowl. Basically, you read certain verses that pertain to the days leading up [...]
Posted on Friday, March 21st, 2008 at
Some great links I’ve come across…
Scholarship Help - great jumping off point
www.scholarshiphelp.org
Weather Watchers
http://www.skywarn.org/default.htm
World War II Escape Tunnel
http://www.kerman94.com/tunnelharry.html
Save the World… 1 Hour at a Time.
http://www.earthhour.org/
Make your own Cadbury Eggs..
http://www.childrensrecipes.com/article_018.htm
Posted on Thursday, March 20th, 2008 at
We headed outside today for a game of modified Bocce Ball… lol. Since we don’t have level yard we just improvised in the game. It was pretty fun until the mosquitoes came out… I hate them little buggars. I need to get some off next time we’re at the store.
I’m thrilled that summer is coming [...]
Posted on Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 at
So in our teen group, we did a small unit study on budgeting. It’s hard to teach that subject unless you actually live it. So I set up a simulation where the kids received their paycheck and then had to visit stations to ‘pay’ their bills. I didn’t take the taxes out automatically as I [...]
