When the thought of homeschooling was just an inkling swimming around in my head, I asked a lot of questions. There were a few homeschooling moms that I knew, so I started with them. Most said the same things about why they decided to school at home and what their biggest struggles were. But one […]
Category Archives: School
Found Some Fun
October 23, 2008 – 3:06 pm
Today I got on the computer in search of Sight Words. Savannah’s reading has greatly improved, but she struggles with the words that are simply holding the sentence together. I notice that she starts guessing what the word might be according to whatever the picture above the sentence looks like. Instead of sounding it out […]
Fire Safety Week
October 10, 2008 – 9:46 pm
Despite the sickness, and eventual ear infection, we had a good week in school. This was Fire Prevention Week so I thought it would be fun to really get into it. We have never sat down and made any kind of family escape plan so we did all of that. We set the smoke detectors […]
Spelling Words
October 2, 2008 – 4:59 pm
Okay, so teaching my kids how to read and write can be right up there with potty training in the frustration category. And sure, on more than one occasion I may or may not have threatened to call the local public school to let them know the bus needs to make an additional stop in […]
Major Breakthrough
September 11, 2008 – 3:36 pm
On the homeschooling front I’ve been hitting a brick wall. Encouraging Savannah to write in lower case letters was becoming a frustration for her AND for me. She only wants to use capitals. LOVES her capitals, she will tell you. The workbook we are using asks that the assignments be printed in lower case, unless […]
