I decided that this year I was going to do something new. We finished 9 weeks of school and are taking a whole week off. Unfortunately, it’s already Wednesday and I’m just getting around to making a post about it. I wish I could say that I’ve spend too much time relaxing. Yesterday morning we…
Tapestry of Grace Planning – Weekly Report Week -1
We are starting Tapestry of Grace Year 3 next week! At the end of last year I did some thinking about our accomplishments for the year and one of the things we didn’t do very well was history. (That’s really an understatement. But I did have a baby, so I’m trying to be generous.) I…
Our School Room
I’ve posted several different times on how we organize our homeschool supplies. We don’t have a school room, but we do school mainly in the dining room and kitchen. We also use the living room for reading and my older daughter likes to work at her desk in her room. Over the years I’ve used…
Planning, planning, planning
Time flies when you’re having fun, and I have been having fun planning our school year. I am still far from finished, but I have gotten a lot done. We’re going to be using Tapestry of Grace Year 3 for our History, Geography, Literature, and Church History studies next year. This is my first year using…
Curriculum Plans
I’ve updated my curriculum page with what we’re planning on using next year. (I don’t have all the links done yet though.) As I read through it, I get a little very nervous. It is going to take some serious coordination on my part to accomplish these goals. The two oldest children do most of…
Mining the Hard Drive or Freebie Amnesia
I’m a nut for freebies. I’ve been downloading really great free homeschooling resources for years. And forgetting to use them… I hope I’m not the only homeschooler who has freebie amnesia. This afternoon I went through the files on my laptop and my external hard drive and I dug up some real gems that will…
End of the year
It’s the day after Memorial Day. I know from my Facebook page that school is out in some places. In our area, public school students have 2 more weeks of school. We do too. Having a baby December 29 really delayed our school year. (But I can’t think of a better reason to delay it…
Tomorrow’s the Day: Preparing for the Homeschool Curriculum Fair
It’s the homeschool curriculum junkie’s dream day. I’m going to browse the book fair at NCHE! I look forward to this day every year. In preparation I make a massive spreadsheet. It has columns for each of my children. Then I list on the subjects that each of my children will be studying on the…
Why does decluttering make such a mess?
I decided to clean out the entertainment center. Yikes! What a mess! I reorganized all the CD’s and DVD’s into clear plastic containers. I used my label maker. That makes me happy. But now I’ve got piles of VHS tapes that I want to get rid of. In the living room floor. So I took…
Evaluating Our Homeschool
In Evaluating Your Homeschool Part 1, I explained several things that I had decided to do to evaluate our homeschool. We have completed our yearly achievement tests, and I am in the process of getting the records up-to-date and assessing our progress in this year’s curricula. In Part 2, I shared the questions I was…