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 California, Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Tommy on Nov 15th, 2016
The kids have private swimming lessons down at the Pepperdine pool on Tuesday mornings, and today I let them warm up in our neighborhood hot tub afterwards if they promised to recite their memory work for me while they lounged…
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling on Oct 27th, 2016
Math is always more fun for Elizabeth when it involves craft supplies and making lists of her friends.=) Yesterday, it was a question of categorizing families with just boys, just girls, and some of each. A fun concept to discuss when every other family on our pad has all boys!!!
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Oct 26th, 2016
On Monday, we took a field trip day up to Santa Barbara! First up, the Ty Warner Sea Center. We love this little museum out on the SB pier. Since we’re studying oceans in science this year, we did a lot of observing and talking to the docents about the various sea creatures. As always, […]
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Oct 20th, 2016
We are loving the kids’private French classes with Marion, a French mom in TO. They sing songs and read books and play games and have a blast improving their accents and learning vocab. Our charter pays for the older three, and I just have to pay for Janie. Tommy looks underwhelmed in these two pictures, […]
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Friends, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Oct 14th, 2016
Our homeschool pumpkin patch field trip happened to be today, so we drove straight from the airport to the farm and brought Grandma along on the field trip! This was the fifth year with this crew, and the kids love it just as much now as they did back then. The weather was perfect, a […]
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Tommy on Sep 28th, 2016
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Sep 27th, 2016
I picked oceans for our science theme for the year (for obvious reasons). Yesterday it was over 90 by 10 am, so we rushed through school and headed out to Malibu Lagoon (hadn’t been there in five years!) to do some nature study. Note our condo in the background–little light colored splotch in the mountain […]
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Sep 23rd, 2016
Medieval History+Illuminated Manuscripts Exhibit at the Getty=Homeschool Field Trip, Of Course! We hadn’t been here for three years, and the kids got way more out of it this time. The family room even had a whole illuminated manuscript activity station, so we got to hit the main point of our field trip twice. Can you […]
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna on Sep 8th, 2016
I haven’t been very good about taking pictures now that school is back in full swing. On Wednesday, when the formal schoolwork was done, the big girls joined Janie with the Lumi-doh that Aunt Terri got us a long time ago (seriously, that stuff lasts forever!). I’m still trying to figure out how to deal […]
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Sep 2nd, 2016
The kids got excited about castles as I was reading aloud their history overview, so they started building and I scrambled to pull up Our Island Story for them to listen to while they expand the castle. This year’s theme: Mommy can be flexible with lesson plans!