What a great first week back to school! Over the break I had some time to think about why we weren’t getting as much done as we should be. I instituted (or re-instituted) some practices that had worked in the past. I realized that I’ve allowed myself to be influenced by how other people homeschool.…
It’s one week into 2010, and I have managed to finish one book. This week I read The Gift of Dyslexia by Ronald D. Davis. It seems like a strange choice for the first book of the year, but I received it for Christmas and wanted to read it. It probably seems like a strange…
Swope’s Ridge is the second book in the Lije Evans mystery series by Ace Collins. I previously reviewed Farraday Road, the first book. I was excited when I received the sequel from Zondervan to review, because Farraday Road has the sort of ending that makes sure you read the next book! Swope’s Ridge continues the…
I have no experience with playing the guitar. However, my oldest son has a small guitar that he has been teaching himself to play for a while. So when I received the Jean Welles Worship Guitar Class on DVD, I gave it right to him. The 4-volume program is designed for students ages 10-adult. (There…
I have no experience with playing the guitar. However, my oldest son has a small guitar that he has been teaching himself to play for a while. So when I received the Jean Welles Worship Guitar Class on DVD, I gave it right to him. The 4-volume program is designed for students ages 10-adult. (There…
Yesterday my son willingly practiced his Latin vocabulary. Even AFTER I told him he could stop. Needless to say, I was shocked. The reason…. Quizlet.com I had heard of quizlet.com, but hadn’t gotten around to figuring out how it worked or getting anything set up on it. I was lucky when I discovered someone else…
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I’ve spent some time during the last two weeks thinking back over 2009. It was a wonderful year in many ways. I’ve made a lot of new on-line friends this year through blogging and my involvement with the TOS Homeschool Crew. My children are learning at home. We haven’t studied all that I had hoped…
Last year I did a Year in Review and posted the first sentence from the first blog post of each month. I decided to do it again this year. I did cheat a little and didn’t use the first post of the month if it was a review, but instead chose the first non-review post…
Here are some of my favorite Christmas pictures. They are not necessarily "good" pictures in the photographic sense, but represent something special to me. The kids and I did a lot of baking and we’ve eaten a lot of chocolate! Our church family went on a hayride through the Festival of Lights. Then we had…