Category Archives: Our Homeschooling Days

Today we will not be doing much in the schoolwork department.  The local public school students have the day off, but the teachers have to work.  My daughter’s best friend’s mom is a teacher and she asked if we could watch her daughter today while she had her parent conferences. So we decided that we would take today off also.  I told the kids that they still need to do their Journal writing and I … Continue reading →

We are nearing the end of our first 9 weeks of school and it’s time to put together a progress report for our records.  This first quarter had been a little shaky at first, but it is slowly picking up steam.  With the added outside activities, I am finding it harder to get the kids to get out of the mindset of ‘hurry and get the work done’ and into the ‘do my best’ mode.  … Continue reading →

This has been another hectic week.  Yesterday was our most ‘relaxed’ day with only Boy Scouts in the evening, but the rest of the week has been a flurry of errands, practices, lessons, and just plain trying to get the schoolwork done. We have an out of town volleyball game tonight and an in-town game tomorrow night.  Who says that homeschool kids need socialization? Now that I am allowing the kids to get on the … Continue reading →

The kids have finished Wordsmith.  I asked them what they thought of the program and was met with mediocre enthusiasm.  They requested that I switch back to Journal writing using journal prompts, so beginning next week that will again be our creative writing class.  We had been doing this in the past but I thought that they needed a more formal program.  I think I was wrong.  They used to love writing in their journals.  … Continue reading →

So far this week has been much better with the kids and their schooling.  I think that they were just bucking the system last week and now that they are back in the swing of things everything is going much more smoothly.  I’ve been busy creating notebook pages to go along with the character training classes for the kids.  I am going to be using Life Lessons from the Princess and the Kiss and Life … Continue reading →