Today was back-to-school day for kids across our province. While most every other family with school-aged children was getting up early, packing new bookbags, rushing over breakfast, running out the door to catch the bus… while moms were missing their babies (whether off for the first time or the twelfth) within a few hours of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘grammar’
Sep
09
Not Back to School Today!
by heather
Tags: back to school, biology, exercise, French, grammar, handwriting, home ec, Homeschooling, household, math, Music, poetry, preschool, science, summer, whales
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Mar
22
First Session Wrap-up: Our First Six Weeks of Charlotte Mason
by heather
We’ve come to the end of our first session of homeschooling with a Charlotte Mason approach. I decided to follow the idea of organizing 6-week session blocks according to the TangleWood School’s suggestions. At the end of the session, we compare what we’ve done with what we’ve planned and see what adjustments might need to [...]
Tags: Aesop, archaeology, book of centuries, Canada, charlotte mason, copywork, curriculum, daily grams, French, geography, grammar, guitar, handwriting, history, Homeschooling, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Leonardo DaVinci, literature, logic, math, Mozart, Music, narration, NOEO science, Pippi Longstocking, poetry, reading, rightst, schedule, Secret Garden, TangleWood, values
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Jan
06
Stop: Grammar Time!
by heather
Here’s a few shots of Flipper goofing around while doing his Daily Grams page today:
“Aww, I hate grammar… I’m so sad and pouty…”
Tags: daily grams, easy grammar, grammar, homeschool, workbooks, writing
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Dec
08
Our Homeschool Curriculum
by heather
We’re not school-at-home. We’re not radical unschoolers. We’re pretty eclectic. I give Flipper quite a bit of freedom in choosing what sorts of things he wants to do, but I also insist on a few things myself. I work very hard, however, at finding materials that will be interesting and even [...]
Tags: Aesop, agnosticism, Canadian Government, Christian, curriculum, eclectic homeschooling, French, geometry, grammar, Greece, guitar, handwriting, history, homeschool, logic, martial arts, math, piano, poetry, reading, religion, Rome, science, spelling, unschooling, virtues, vocabulary, writing
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