Sometimes, when our family spends part of a school day catching up housework rather than hitting the books, we jokingly say that we’re doing “life skills” class. Even though we’re kidding, there is a kernel of truth — and even more validity — to the statement. The skills my kids are learning when we clean [...]
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A year ago, my daughter Molly and I participated in an organized playgroup once a week with other children that were around her age. I wanted to share the schedule that they used because I thought that it was a great program that could easily be translated into home activities, a co-op class/activity, or perhaps [...]
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Every year about this time most people start thinking about whether or not they want to make any New Year’s Resolutions. I stopped doing the traditional kinds of resolutions (lose weight, go to bed earlier, exercise, etc) a few years ago when I realized that many times if I didn’t make those resolutions I ended [...]
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Math – I have never been particularly good at it. I plugged along doing my best, and usually received As and Bs in the lower school grades. I struggled hard in high school, and while Algebra was doable, I barely passed Geometry. Neither of my parents had finished high school, so I did not have [...]
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My earliest Christmas memories involve Christmas Eve at my granparents’ house. By the time I was a teenager, no one even had to ask what time to show up anymore. It was 7:00. Everybody knew. We’d get there and my Nannie would still be elbow deep in potato salad, pots and pans boiling on the [...]
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I like to do a review of our homeschool efforts at the end of the calendar year, which in the US is about half way through the school year. Sometime after Christmas, I sit down with a pencil and paper to evaluate what worked and what didn’t. The process is very simple. First, I make [...]
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