One of the concerns I hear a lot when it comes to homeschooling is the fear of their child being socially awkward. They will dress weird, not know how to hold a conversation won’t be street smart and not know how to interact amongst friends. Here are some of my thoughts on the issue: Being […]
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We headed to the Fullerton Arboretum this past week for Nature Study. There were orchards with ripening fruit an Ombu tree a shady creek with freshwater clams! and rocks for baby boys to go ‘kerplunk’ and cool water for darling big sisters to dip their baby brothers’ feet in and bamboo shoots to delight little
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You may recall my unfortunate post here. As I mentioned, planning out our meals was the first place I wanted change because it would bring the greatest relief. This past week was my first week designing the change I wanted in our home. We sat down at dinner one night and made a list of
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If you haven’t read the last BOC post I did, you can find it here. Last week we had our Monthly Meeting on the topic of The Book of Centuries and I invited Shannon, a wonderful friend we met through the AO Yahoo groups. She attended one of our meetings a while back – drove
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We know wisdom comes from God, scripture and good counsel. I’ve also heard someone put it this way: wisdom comes from two places – your mistakes, or the mistakes of others. I providentially landed on this MUST READ post over at The Common Room tonight. And I do prefer to learn from the mistakes of
Everything came to a head. It was as if God’s grace disappeared all of a sudden. Maybe it was the extreme heat that led to dehydration that led to poor milk supply that led to fussy baby and the need to nurse all day long, leaving everything else undone.Maybe it was the un-pluggable milk duct.Maybe
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We had our annual Nature Study meeting last week and our first Nature Study day for 2011 this week at the creek. It turned out to be 97 degrees, which wasn’t so bad until we started trekking up the creek to a point I blogged about here. The creek was rather parched and the heat
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Here’s my post for pictures I’ve been meaning to share, but don’t feel like writing an entire post about. We had Robin Hood ‘play’ at the end of the year last year… We went to see Much Ado About Nothing in the park… We went to visit Johnna and watched a little tiny tug boat
The first week of school always lands on a four day school week because of Labor Day. But AO has a full week for week 1 – regardless of when you start. So rather than start our year with the stress of trying to squeeze it all in, I decided to split the first week
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Because I don’t already have enough to do, Brandi @ Afterthoughts tagged me on a Homeschool Meme! ;-p I am honored. Really. And I did take her ‘Don’t fail me people!’ to heart. Because not only do I really enjoy Brandi’s posts and benefit from them, I am amazed at the sheer volume of consecutive