I have so many little matters to tell you of, that I cannot wait any longer before I begin to put them down.
Posted in Annie, Chicago, Homeschooling on Jun 15th, 2024
Annie will usually only be scheduled to have two hours of therapy on Saturdays, but they told us they could fit her in for extra sessions if they had availability and we were interested. Obviously my reply was an emphatic YES! Today she was so excited to get to have two sessions of PT AND […]
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Iowa, Janie, Susanna on Dec 15th, 2021
All three girls played in the Mid-Prairie Homeschool Assistance Program Christmas Concert! Between the band, orchestras, and choirs, about 150 kids participated. It was Janie’s first-ever public performance, and she did great! Grandma Willett even got to drive up to see it! Janie’s beginning viola class joined the whole combined orchestra for “Joy to the […]
Posted in Annie, Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Aug 20th, 2021
Since we were all in quarantine, we decided that our “soft start” to school this week would actually be a real start to school. We did sleep in an extra hour because Tommy was still tired at the beginning of the week, and I had to homeschool briefly from the couch Wed morning before retreating […]
Posted in Homeschooling on Jun 1st, 2021
2020-2021 was our hardest school year ever, but we persevered to the end.
Posted in Homeschooling on Sep 8th, 2020
I guess this is the absolute latest start date we’ve ever had for school, but I had to give myself until after Labor Day to try to get the house in order. It’s not there yet, but we had a lot of help this weekend, and it’s getting there. Meanwhile, the Iowa City public schools […]
Posted in Homeschooling on Aug 22nd, 2020
I haven’t been blogging this summer due to packing, moving, unpacking, living through the derecho that crashed our skylight and took out our power for 6 days and our internet for 12 days, and getting Susie through surgery yesterday, but I have been pulling together homeschooling advice from here, Everything to Someone, and lots of […]
Posted in Homeschooling, Susanna on Mar 14th, 2020
Posted in Homeschooling, Janie on Feb 27th, 2020
Today Janie finished her phonics book! I have been using The Ordinary Parents’ Guide to Teaching Reading nonstop with one kid after another for the past eight years, and I loved it just as much the fourth time through. Simple presentation, no distracting pictures that make kids guess instead of sounding out, and steady progress […]
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Feb 25th, 2020
WordPress finally let me upload pictures from last week! We invited our little neighbor Hannah over for a homeschool art afternoon and did our first official watercolor tutorial. Our teacher told us to have fun and be kind to yourself instead of comparing to everyone else.
Posted in Homeschooling on Feb 12th, 2020
Yesterday Annie had puked three times by 8 am, and I decided to declare a sick day. The big kids watched nature and Egyptian history documentaries in the morning while I cleaned up vomit and snuggled with Annie (she just has a cold that is causing her to gag, not a stomach bug), and then […]