Our homeschooling and home building story.
It's crazy how things can change in just a week! At the beginning of this week, we had daylight savings time and the kids went grocery shopping with me. Cas' sleep schedule was completely out of whack for the first half of the week. Ari spent a whole day at school with dad going to... Continue Reading →
Since everyone is homeschooling now during the Covid-19 pandemic...I thought I'd share some resources available to parents who haven't had a chance to prepare. First is this huge spreadsheet of Education companies compiled by Amazing Educational Resources offering free subscriptions: http://www.amazingeducationalresources.com/ From the giant list above, I can personally recommend BrainPop Jr (learning videos on... Continue Reading →
While praying for rain, we enjoyed another beautiful week. We spent lots of time outside and we learned about early American history studying George Washington and the Corps of Discovery. For science we did two crystal growing demonstrations that were a hit. This week we took our obstacle course game to the complex playground. You... Continue Reading →
Another fun week, except for all the coronavirus news. I'll be happy when that's blown over. We have masks for the kids left from fire season but only one grown-up mask. I reminded the kids how to wash their hands appropriately and I bought a few staples like dried beans and rice and pasta. Hopefully... Continue Reading →
Progress stalled on our rebuilding project for a while because PID took twice as long to get us our fire-flow test as they had said. This last Wednesday they finally got the results to us. Yay! And we passed them on to our fire-sprinklers sub and to our architect. They are now getting those finishing... Continue Reading →
This week started out at my parents house because we were there to celebrate my moms birthday. After that we focused a lot on fire safety this week. We got to go see a firefighter presentation and explore a fire truck. We read several books on fire safety and watched a video or two and... Continue Reading →
This week we finished up Term 1 of the Gentle+Classical Nature program. We really enjoyed using this nature study program this year. I know it says Term 1 but we took it nice and slow, starting the program last April or May I think and just finishing it now. We averaged 2 weeks to a... Continue Reading →
This week was a busy week of recovery. Kids were all well but I lost my voice for several days which makes lots of things more difficult. Otherwise we were kept busy with all the regular things: groceries, homeschool, Adventurers, our little homeschool group, Ari had her first real Sound of Music practice, and we... Continue Reading →
This week did not go entirely as planned although it started well. Caleb took Cas out on a daddy/son date to get boxers and celebrate his progress with potty training. That afternoon we made an appearance at the Sophomore class Superbowl party because...although we disapprove of football we approve of supporting our school and students.... Continue Reading →
We finished off January strong. Ari finished her 31 day reading challenge and so she and I went on a mommy/Eden date to Barnes and Noble. We went to one section of the store and both buried ourselves in books, then moved to another section and did the same...a couple of times. Then we each... Continue Reading →
Returning to Paradise 