One of my favorite homeschooling blog posts to read is a family's year in review where they let us know how the curriculum they chose for that year worked out for them. I feel that is a more meaningful review of a curriculum than that they chose it at the beginning of the year. You... Continue Reading →
Next up… June
Things are winding down around here. This week was finals week for Caleb so he didn't have as much preparing to do. He did have a two-day social distanced teacher caravan to visit every academy student's home to deliver yearbooks and treats and well wishes. We joined him on the first day. Graduation is this... Continue Reading →
“Grown-up” books for May
https://smile.amazon.com/Magicians-Nephew-C-S-Lewis-ebook/dp/B085BVG548/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= After my scholarly reading...and with everything going on...I went for some lighter...more escapist reading this month. The first one was intentional...the second I stumbled upon... and haven't exactly finished. The first is the Magician's Nephew. I haven't read Narnia in a while and it's very comforting to me. If it's your first time through... Continue Reading →
Farewell May…you weren’t much better
I don't know about the rest of you, but my heart hurts. I cried a lot this week. So much suffering in the world from covid, from the ongoing effects of racism, from brutality, from riots, and my own, fair less important, personal struggles...from canceled musicals and contracts that are unfair to women who have... Continue Reading →
Tiny steps of progress
This week our last dead trees were felled! Yay! We kept two sections of logs to add to the kids play area but the rest of the trees were cleaned up and taken away, yay. Also, we finally got our plans back to resubmit and Caleb made an appointment to resubmit them on Tuesday. Good... Continue Reading →
All About Reading Review
Ari finished All About Reading level 2 this week! We started with All About Reading level Pre back when Ari was 2.5. We took it very slow and she loved it. We tried a different learning to read curriculum when she was 4 and while it was fine...about halfway through she begged to go back... Continue Reading →
Officially schools out!
Ari's last day with the charter school for the year was Friday so she is officially done. However, we will continue with our school routine until daddy is done at his school. I just don't have to keep my running log of all the learning we accomplish for the day and we've finished a bunch... Continue Reading →
Mothers Day and more
This week started with a nice Mother's Day. They let me sleep in and then went out to pick me a bouquet of flowers while I got to read in peace for a few minutes and they made me a nice card and waffles for breakfast and then Ari and her dad cleaned the bathrooms... Continue Reading →
Mathematical Reasoning Review
Ari finished her math book for the year so it's a good time for another review! We use Mathematical Reasoning from the Critical Thinking Co as our core math curriculum (again this is not a sponsored post, just me sharing what I think of this curriculum). I was introduced to this curriculum by the Timberdoodle... Continue Reading →
What will May bring?
This week brought a lot of fun. We went up to our property on Sunday to check out the work by the arborist. Our 2 surviving trees are now well pruned and we enjoyed seeing all the little wildflowers and our irises blooming. The next day was Caleb's birthday and we went to the irrigation... Continue Reading →
Returning to Paradise 