Posts Tagged Homeschooling

First Day of the New Homeschool Year

Posted 23 August 2011 by
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Well, yesterday marked our first official day of the new homeschool year.  And, if I do say so myself, it was a complete success.  We were able to stay mostly within the guidelines of our family schedule, only making minor changes to accommodate for a sleeping baby and later an unintentional sleeping toddler.  The day [...]

Moore Mcguffey Readers

Posted 11 August 2011 by
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This is a totally dorky post and almost completely pointless.  However, for no good reason benownst to me, I’m thrilled about having my boys read these books this upcoming school year… Thankfully, my mom kept a lot of books from when we were growing up and when they had moved a few years ago and [...]

Family Schedule

Posted 9 August 2011 by
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So, some time back I wrote a post “Preparing for Homeschooling” and I desperately wanted to include our family schedule that I spent so much time planning out.  However, since I’m totally learning as I go with this whole website thing, I couldn’t figure out how to post that schedule here.  But finally I figured [...]

Countdown to School

Posted 8 August 2011 by
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Last week I sat down with a calendar so I could plan out the school year’s lesson plans…a few days off for Thanksgiving, 2 weeks off for Christmas, a few extra “free” days, and about 2 weeks off for after the baby is born in February.  Well, since the 2010-2011 school year went well into June for us [...]

Preparing for Homeschooling

Posted 27 July 2011 by
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Lately I’ve been consumed with planning out the upcoming school year.  My 6 year old will be starting the second grade and my 4 (almost 5) year old will be starting the first grade.  As if that doesn’t sound crazy enough, add an energetic 3 year old, an attention-loving 1 year old, and a pregnant [...]