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First Day of School 2011

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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Homeschool Meme

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

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Oranges and Lemons

My children came back from church one afternoon this past year playing a game that went something like this: Down by the banks of the hanky panky Bullfrog jumped from bank to bank Hip hop soda pop, hey Mr. William and he went kerplop! They sat in a circle, criss cross applesauce and had their

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YR4 Term 1 Schedule

I finally got around to finishing my YR4 daughter’s schedule for Term 1. Most of the work was in figuring out how our day would flow and then splitting up the readings, particularly Robinson Crusoe. I have the Junior Deluxe Edition, which has no chapters, making it very time consuming to split the readings for

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The Clothing of Thought

I’m working through my daughter’s YR4 AO schedule, and I noticed that in The Story Book of Science, a book I’m really looking forward to after hearing Kristine rave about it, Chapter 19 titled ‘The Book’ is skipped entirely. Well, curiosity does kill the cat doesn’t it? I nosed through it and here’s a snippet:

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Yet Another Schedule

My, this blog has been sorely neglected! Time is just an extremely rare commodity these days, but all for good reasons 🙂 A while back I mentioned I was reading the book “A Mother’s Rule of Life, How to Bring Order to Your Home and Peace to Your Soul” by Holly Pierlot. I’ve been enjoying

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Children

My daughter read Longfellow this past week, which she hadn’t been too enthused about because the poems are longer and of a more serious tone than those of A.A. Milne, Christina Rosetti, James Whitcomb Riley, Eugene Field and others from previous years. Precisely why they are very much up my alley – I particularly loved

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On Christians and Homeschooling vs. Public Schooling (UPDATED)

Kristine emailed me last night asking if I was following Challies’ latest posts titled: The Weaker, The Stronger, The Homeschooler, a series of posts based on Romans 14:1-12. The posts discuss Christian Homeschoolers, Public Schoolers and Private Schoolers and their attitudes towards one another’s educational choices for their children. Apparently, there are some less than

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