14 September 2014
We survived the first full week. Monday through Wednesday we worked hard. And then, I started to feel burn out. Thursday I crashed ... sort of. We had a couple of phone calls and I gave up and took...
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September 19, 2014
There is a trend. We skipped a day ... again. This is not "end of the world" terrible but it could turn into a nasty habit. MathWeak. We finished the first Key to Measurement booklet and did one...
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September 27, 2014
Monday my 19 year old daughter had her four wisdom teeth extracted. She didn't require much care, but 12yo and I still didn't get much school done. Sometimes I wonder about my sanity. I've been...
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October 3, 2014
Highlight of the week - 12yo started swimming lessons. Current EventsCNN Student NewsNewademicsMathMath ReflexI just couldn't do it - "Key to ...." We went back to Rod & Staff.Weight, capacity, and...
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October. What can I say? It's darker every day and the temps outside are creeping downward. With the arrival of fall my body has slowed down and getting anything accomplished has become harder and...
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Lessons went so smoothly today. Days like this are rare but they are the ones that sustain me and keep me going down the homeschool path. Current EventsStill loving CNN Student News and...
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November 14, 2014
Probably THE most helpful change this week - we got up earlier!I decided to use a plain daily planner this week and I think it helped us get more accomplished. We'll see how it lasts. It seems I need...
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An afternoon appointment here, an afternoon appointment there and suddenly you realize your weekly plan has been sabotaged. I have accepted that we lose a couple of hours prepping for and driving to...
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Can we quit now?Can't. hold. on. much. longer! (The Adventures of Cliff Hangar from Between the Lions)Daily math and English lessons are all I can muster.
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Anxiety? I've felt overwhelmed this week, and I seem to be shutting down. One of my girls has a joined a team at the high school which means after school games and practices. Another has added a...
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Much better week!12yo moved up in swimming lessons to level 5. :)Current EventsDropped the ball on Newsademic, but we did watch CNN Student News religiously.LatinLively Latin - More Camillus, cont'd...
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* Feb. 27, 2015. Just found this today. *Monday was a holiday - Martin Luther King Jr. DayLatinLively Latin - still working through lesson eleven. Practiced conjugating the future tense, worked with...
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Found an older blog post, so some of what I have written here is repeated.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Wow! Where has the time gone? It's been a mixed bag. Some days we've been productive and some we...
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We are finished with R&S Math 6. I can't even begin to express how relieved I feel at the moment. As soon as we finished the last planned lesson and I copied the review lessons, I bagged up the...
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Doing school two days a week (Monday/Wednesday) at the community college has turned out to be a good thing. I'm still not thrilled about it, but it has helped us stay more focused and accomplish more....
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The most productive week I think we've ever had!We've been starting with CNN Student News first thing in the morning to help our brains wake up. Neither one of us is a morning person.Latin2nd Punic...
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Another amazing week. : )Current Events - CNN Student NewsLatinVocabulary H - adjectives2nd Punic War - Hannibal Outwits Fabius (The Fabian Policy, cattle with burning fagots on horns)MathLessons...
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Well, it was nice while it lasted. Normal life has descended upon me again. In other words, we couldn't seem to get in gear this week. It is true that I had a cold but it should NOT have slowed us...
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We were productive while at the community college; not so much the other days. Thursday 17yo was a passenger in a car that was rear-ended. I spent the afternoon trying to determine if she needed to...
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We aren't finished, but I'm done. Somehow I totally lost my oomph over the Memorial Day weekend.I plan to do math daily over the summer.Ihope to do bird and tree studies.Anything else that occurs will...
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Productivity? What's that? Yeah, school's out for summer.edit - The BIG news? 13yo is finished with swimming lessons until the fall. She started out as a non-swimmer and finished up as a level 6....
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Update on my girls:14 yo - my only homeschooler. She's had a huge adjustment this school year - early morning seminary. Up at 5:45 a.m. every school morning and on the road before 6:30 a.m. She had...
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Another school year has come and gone....Having a commitment outside the home every day, early morning seminary, guaranteed the most consistent school year we've probably ever had. We started strong...
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July 08, 2017 Planning
After all these years of homeschooling (17?) and with only one child left, I'm making the most serious attempt I've ever made to plan and organize before the school year starts.What am I using? Plan...
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Update on my girls:16 yo - Still homeschooling; still attending early morning seminary. 19 yo - Worked for over a year as a CNA. Now working as a Starbucks barista and expecting her first baby in the...
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