Archive for July, 2008
A Bit Upset…
Today I felt like calling the Homeschooling Office to be sure they received our 4th Quarterly, Assessment & the LOI for 208-2009 school year. When I started homeschooling, I sent my husband with the paperwork and he hand delivered it to the office. The last paperwork in question was sent “certified,” I did send the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Archery Class…
Today the Pop Tart & the Big Kahuna started their Archery class. I have to admit I thought that this would be really boring, but the children took to it like a fish in water. The class ran for 3 hours (it didn’t even feel like it) and the instructor was great with the children. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Ho Hum… Paperwork to be done!
While the dad took the kids to their appointments today I spent the bulk of the day doing the following:
Re-read the Core Knowledge “What Your 3rd Grader Needs to Know” & the K version.
Online book shopping. I purchased most of them through Amazon’s used books dealers.
Re-re-re-read NYS’s curriculum standards & laughed a bit.
Started on The [...]
Homeschooling Ceremony…
We are preparing for the 1st “Annual Homeschoolers Yearly Accomplishments Showcase and Reception.” Some homeschool parents thought of celebrating our children’s and the parents’ accomplisments of the year. This is such a great idea and we are all very excited about it!! A couple of days ago I sat down and began noting the “pop tarts” (C) [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Independence Day…
We celebrated the July 4th holiday with a trip to the Beach (again!) on Thursday. C & K found some sea creatures: a crab & a jelly fish. They also experimented with some seaweed and what happens to it when it is dried up. They went seashell hunting & C found out how many buckets of [...]
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