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I have this game I bought a couple years ago to use for the storytelling class I was developing at the time.
Looking for something new to do with the girls (I’m experimenting with letting Melody skip naps) I pulled it out and tried on the fly to see if I could adapt it to their [...]

I have a passel of pictures to upload once pictures are working again, but for now I wanted to say our approach to Kindergarten has morphed a few times now.
I’m glad I haven’t been saying each thing as we were doing it, but to recap, we began with the intent of hammering out the “3 [...]

School started today all across the district, so yesterday I told Natasha she’d be starting too.
This seemed to bother her quite a bit, and she said she wasn’t ready and didn’t really want to start Kindergarten.  She was so (quietly) intense about it, I was ready to say, You’re only 5, we can wait, before [...]

I don’t want anyone to worry about my children’s education.
That said, I’m not very good at expressing myself when I attempt to dispel concerns.
Last Sunday a retired teacher noted the rapidly approaching school year and said, “I bet you’re really busy planning now!”
Did I say, “I began researching in January, stopped buying materials in March [...]

Well, after Saturday’s hunting trip through the bookstore, I have everything I could possibly need for our home curriculum’s areas of focus.
Very specific things like the three grade-level artists and scientists will need to be supplemented by the library, but everything else is well-covered by what I’ve collected at Forget-Me-Not Books. ($.25-$1 per book)

Art

Drawing [...]

I’ve gone through the FNSBSD “Curriculum Guide for Parents” and compared objectives for K and 1st grade, making a new set of objectives based on where NJ is currently at (she *so* has K Language Arts smoked. And half of 1st-grade’s, I’d say.)
Under this new organizing the only things she is doing exclusively at the [...]

Melody’s fever seemed to break last night, but she’s still coughing and emotional/clingy today, along with other symptoms.
Elisha has a low fever and isn’t keeping anything down.  We keep feeding and watering him “against orders” because Jay figures if the boy’s going to be throwing-up anyway we might as well make it less painful.
This is [...]

So we really started school today, complete with a visit to the school library and playing on the playground.
I don’t know how we got away with this last one except it was so warm today we none of us wanted to stay inside, and then my impulsive self said, Why just go around the loop [...]

And currently we’re looking at using French for the kids’ second (spoken) language.
I’m looking into materials for young learners just now.

So I did my first “concurrent” lessons today.
One thing I’ve wondered as I think/plan for this new job (homeschooling) is how I will prepare different things for different needs.
While the girls were napping today I read some more of a homeschooling book and took a couple ideas from there to make some “Language Arts” [...]