Our homeschool life
We were watching an episode of Good Eats that we had recorded on our DVR. We got to a commercial break and as I started hitting the skip button Cameron said, “I hate this part! This is a really exciting movie!”
Our alarm clock has three sounds to go to sleep to. Cameron really likes the sound of crickets, a repeated chirp-chirp-chirp-break-chirp-chirp-chirp-break, and last night asked me to put that one. All of a sudden he jumped up and said “It sounds like ’sum, es, est, sum, es, est*’!” He was so excited. […]
We are using Sonlight’s Language Arts with Grade 2 Readers for Ani. Though her reading level is well above the easy readers in the package, we chose that particular level for three reasons. One, she reads all the time on her own anyway for pleasure so I didn’t feel the need to tax […]
Vita-Mix Demonstrator: Are you homeschooled?
Early Teenage Boy: (shakes head) No.
Vita-Mix Demonstrator: Oh, I figured you were because you’re so smart.
On his birthday, Fritz went for a walk with Cameron on the sidewalk in front of our house. Cameron tripped and fell on top of Fritz. The little guy ended up with two skinned knees, a skinned cheek, a skinned nose, and a bruise between his right eye and nose.
For science we are using Sonlight Science C. We like it quite well. It’s not perfect, but I have not found an elementary science program that I think is. Most of science learning at this age in my opinion should be from living life and observing the world around them. A […]
After three years of not having a TV we decided to get one again. We decided to get one partly because I can’t watch anything comfortably on the little eMac or MacBook monitors and partly because we’ve pretty much exhausted the educational content on iTunes that Cameron is interested in and partly because we […]
For home ec we are using Home Economics for Homeschoolers. I don’t love it but it is good enough. It covers things like cooking, cleaning, and sewing. Typical home ec things. We are in the cooking section currently and have issues because every recipe is not allowed in our house. […]
