Tag archives for ABC’s of homeschooling
T is for Teenager
T is for Teenager….I have 2 and 1 tween and an almost (ahem) 21 yr old. For a bit last year I had 3 teenagers…. I know some families choose to send their kids to public high school so that can get a ‘real’ ; We are not one of those ; My opinion is this: I feel that kids need us almost more in their teen than they do when they are ;…
S is for SUMMER
Ahhhh the dog days of summer…..or in our case Summer ; Yes, we still have fun. We still go to the beach. We just do a little school first. Not because I am an ogre. It’s because, honestly, a slacker. All of December we didn’t do one lick of school ; I have decided, if we are here in February, that that will be the chosen month to take off. I always burnout from winter…
R is for Reading
R is for Reading….or I guess this could be B is for Books We read A LOT of books in this ; E14 has been known to burn the midnight oil reading…. They like to read anything from the Sunday funnies to the dictionary to To Kill a Mockingbird. We have 4 library cards to rotate through….We have been known to be cut off from so many checked out.…
Q is for Questions!
If there is one thing that homeschoolers AREN’T lacking…it’s QUESTIONS….. They learn by asking questions. There are no dumb questions. My answer, usually, is Google is the sky blue?Who won the Civil War?Where is Relevant?What’s for dinner….oh well….anyway you get my we went to the ocean they asked questions about the tides. When we drove north through Seattle to Everett they asked how so many people could live in one the other day on the…
P is for PE
Not the PE of our childhood….there are no locker rooms or public showers…THANK GOD!I don’t follow a structured curriculum. They play soccer in the fall…Snowboard/ski in winter and soccer again in the spring. Of course I can’t find any pictures of them actually DOING these I do not have a structured PE day. They have soccer and skiing and those are taught by coaches or instructors. I hated PE in school…didn’t learn anything. I probably…
Back to Homeschool week 4~The Plan
The Plan….every homeschool mom has a plan. Some maybe rigid and scheduled….others may just be happy that they are able to get math done some year I am using Well Planned ; I won it! I have yet to use a planner and still be using it by the end of the school year. This planner may be ; I would use my iPhone if it were bigger….hmmm maybe an iPad would be better….I digress…I…
Back to Homeschool week 3~Where We Hang
This is for last week link up~School rooms. Our school room last week was the ocean hence the lack of a post…So here is where we spend our days….usually…most days on the living room floor or dining room table…but if it’s super hot out or super cold out we are in our classroom. Cool in summer and we can get it warm with a space heater in winter. my computer and printer…
O is for Ocean
(at time of writing I wasn’t there yet. This is from ) How perfect is it that O is for Ocean and we are AT the ocean! Ocean Shores, WA for a week at my sister-in-laws beach house. FOR FREE….just our food…and gas to get here. Which we were already in Seattle for my half marathon so this was just a bit further. I can’t wait to get back and blog about our…
The S word
The dreaded S word. Socialization. The single most asked question of homeschool moms. Of the single biggest reason non homeschool moms give for not homeschooling. What about SOCIALIZATION?I haven’t blogged about this topic yet…at least not with it’s own post. So why now? do you ask….maybe you aren’t asking, but I am going to tell you , I was driving down the road with my younger two…well not so young…..but younger than my older ;…
Bird Aviation Museum
Last weekend we went to Bird Aviation Museum in Sagle, ID. It was Dr. Bird’s 90th ; He was there, but I didn’t get a picture….he was inundated with people and I didn’t want to ; This was a public event…not like we are personal friends or anything. This wasn’t our first time here…in fact I think my kids have been there before. It was a fun day He has many cars….each plate…