I love Shakespeare. In high school, our English class took a trip to the Shakespeare Festival in Ashland to watch Taming of the Shrew in the Elizabethan Theater there, and I took an entire term of Shakespeare in college. Ahhhh, linguistic deliciousness. Now I have a swarm of small swarm of children swirling about, whom [...]
As the school year winds down, I find myself mentally pondering the highs and lows and trying to figure out improvement strategies for next year. Overall, I’ve been pretty happy with how the year went. We went with Tapestry of Grace for history/Bible/literature/church history/geography. It’s a lovely classical, integrated curriculum that winds all those things [...]
Happily, today is one of those together days. Georgie got a 96% on his grammar test, and all three of the girls got 100% on their spelling tests. Yay! I teach good. Yeah sure, I suppose they may have had something to do with it. This is Kyra’s first year of school (she’s five, turns [...]
Wow, it’s been five months since I last posted. Grandpa, I’m so sorry! (My Grandpa regularly comments on how much he likes hearing all the family news since they live in AZ). So, here’s the quick update for the three of you who don’t know: Thanks to el crappo economo, my website business started tanking [...]
Church softball season has started up and I’m on the team again this year. Two years ago was my first season since high school (and we won’t discuss how long ago that was), and I had soooo much fun. Last year Henry was just a teeny tiny so I sat the season out. Last Thursday [...]
Our church has the coolest Sunday School classes ever! A month or so ago Georgie came home all excited because he had homework from his Sunday School class (!!). He had two weeks to build a complete tabernacle out of whatever he wanted, so naturally he decided to make his from Bionicles. In case you [...]
Rachel’s Educational Philosophy in No Particular Order, 4/17/09 General Philosophy: Children don’t know what God will call them to be when they grow up (no matter how sure today they are that they are going to be an astronaut), so they need exposure to as much as possible. No one likes subjects that they don’t [...]
Okay, so I am officially starting homeschool with the kiddos this coming Monday (4/20/09). Yikes! Actually, I’m feeling pretty ok about it. Got the schedule all sorted out. See? What, you can’t read that? Well, click on it and it will take you to the bigger version. For term study this time we are doing [...]
Today Amy emailed me these pictures that she took of the kids at school (Zera Hall) over the last few months. They’re so cute! Apparently the blue frosting was very blue. Studying India. The schoolroom. Anika being her usual charming self. Trinity loves school. Georgie loves Dragons (and school). I think he bought the book [...]
Kyra’s educational voyage began today, and boy was she happy! She’s been asking me to start doing school with her ever since her nap schedule dropped from every day to every other day a few months ago, and as I was browsing through my computer stuff today I discovered a whole stash of old alphabet [...]
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