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Weekly Wrap-Up: The Wind Down

This week we hit the books again—hard. Only math books though. Since our year got disrupted (took half a week off to go out of state, then another week as our 16yo settled back in at home, then the following week was VBS) I have decided that, with the two remaining weeks we have left in our ‘school year’, we will just focus on math. [...]

Re-arranging Our Days

This week I decided that we need to do school backwards.

For as long as I have taught my kids, I have had basically the same daily routine:

Morning: Bible (I read while kids do their handwriting), math, spelling/phonics, grammar/reading

Afternoon: science and [...]

Feeling Like a Slacker

Our first week back to homeschooling after a break is always kind of weird. The second week goes better, and by the third week, we are back to our routine again full force.  Usually.  This time has been an exception.

Most of you know that we took the entire month of April off.  [...]

Mid-Course Corrections

This is my first Weekly Wrap-Up in three weeks! Things have just been getting away from me lately. I’m glad to “be back!”

Here I am, at the beginning of March, and my well laid out school plans have been pushed aside.  I feel disappointed in myself, and yet I see that adjustments [...]

Falling Behind

Not the kids, me.

This week has just not gone the way I wanted it to!  We are behind!  We started out behind and we finished, still behind.  We have a couple of chapters of history still to catch up on next week.  The boys DID get their spelling tests done today, [...]