I can't believe we're down to the end of the summer. It has truly been a good summer - very relaxing. I did a lot of reading and sleeping in. We did picnics and parks and day trips. We let piano lessons go for the summer. I truly feel refreshed and ready for the new …
Tag: School
Up to the Mark
Years ago when I started homeschooling I knew I needed a system for recording marks that was simple. Somewhere in my searching I found a system that with just a few tweaks works for me. This is what my mark sheet looks like. As you can see it's a very simple form. When I …
Planning My School Week
So, in keeping with all the school posts we've had this week, I thought I'd show you how I plan out our week. Every year I have to slightly alter the form I made so it fits the grades and subjects we're using. I use the course planning sheets that I showed you in this …
Why Use Notebooks
Today I have another guest post. This one is from my mom, Georgel La More. My mom is my go-to person whenever I hit a problem in our homeschool. I call her almost every day, and when we're in school she has encouraged me or given me some great idea many, many times. When I …
Homeschooling Planning Made Easy
For a variety of reasons which I won't get into here I chose Rod and Staff curriculum for most of our subjects when we started homeschooling twelve years ago. They take a little more planning because they are textbooks. I didn't want to spend my summer setting up school courses so I came up with …
A Binder Cover
My daughter had an ugly binder so I told her I would cover it for her. In the past I have done the kind of covers where it's glued right to the binder, but this time I wanted something she could move to another binder when hers wore out. To start with you need …
Singing and Grace
I woke up this morning with this song going through my head... I can go directly to my Lord in prayer. He has told me I may boldly enter there, And He listens as His promises I plead. I find grace to help and strength for every need. I grew up in a family …
Flying Teenagers and Buttoning Toddlers
This has been a wonderful week. Three weeks in and school is still going smoothly. I've finally found a way of arranging our school week that makes things less stressful. My two year old has also started to learn how to occupy himself a little better although we still do use Baby Einstein on Youtube …
Learning and Hiking
It's been a great back-to-school week - I think our best ever. We've started a new routine and new chore chart. I don't know if that accounts for how well everything has gone, but it's been good. We also had our first (of what we hope is many) hikes in the Rouge River Valley. We left …
Homeschooling Elementary
This week I'm going to be doing a lot of work to get organized for school. The neat thing is that I've done this for so long that a lot of the work has been done already. The bulk of my time will be spent organizing my daughter's high school classes which I'll talk about …
Intentional Simplicity 