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School summary: The girls are off and running with school. Michaela is in her freshman year of college at the local community college. She will transfer (hopefully) to Texas A&M next year into the Dance Science program in the Kinesiology Department. Her goal is to become a physical therapist specializing in dancers and athletes. Emma…
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This past year we covered a lot of material. However, my children dislike "school". So, it was with excitement that I purchased the book, Little Way of Homeschooling. It is a collection of essays about how unschooling works in different families. I started to read it then decided to read Suzie Andres first book, Homeschooling…
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Today marks the end of our first full week of school (for now we school 4 days a week and take the 5th for field trips and fun time). We had started in August with math and religion. I'm exhausted. Who knew that the 4th child would be such a burden even with it…
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So, what do you do when the teacher is sick? Take a sick day. It's the first day of public school here but I think we're going to take the day off so I can rest (we've been back at it since mid-July). I did make it mass and therapy this morning, but my ears…
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I had a wonderful time at the conference. I heard some great talks, and just had fun without distraction. One of the highlights was meeting someone I knew online, 4Real. ETA: Next year's keynot speaker will be Danielle Bean. Also, next year's focus will be special needs so I'm hoping someone gets swayed to…
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I want spring to come soon. It’s been colder this winter than past winters–or at least it seems that way to me. However, the biggest reason I want spring to come is that with spring comes this: A wonderful new book, Haystack Full of Needles, A Catholic Home Educator’s Guide to Socialization is coming out…
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The following is the first in a series of posts to catch up on all my Advent and Christmas happenings. Inspired by Alice and Mary Ellen’s homeschool group’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, our homeschool group put on a production of Christmas at Greccio, A Play in One Act. We started rehearsals in September…
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Our homeschool group has been trying to get the fathers involved. One of the ways has been to have them give a presentation to the children in whatever special topic the dad chooses. Ben did a presentation involving military paintings about the 82nd Airborne. He taught them the routine for jumping out of an airplane. …
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Today was the first day of school for the public schools. You can see the neighborhood school from my bedroom window. There were crowds of cars unloading parents with children in tow. For us, we’d been schooling off and on all year. There’s no real "summer vacation". However, we had been off for the past…
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