This Friday in our Homeschool….
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Susanna, Tommy on May 9th, 2014
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This Week in Our Homeschool
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Apr 25th, 2014
Thought I’d give a few more pictures of what our school days have been like… On a normal school day, Elizabeth is tracing her numbers, Tommy is creating a map based on descriptions in his geography book, and Susie is playing with the math rods. And then there are days like yesterday! PJ called me […]
Homeschool Math
Posted in Elizabeth, Friends, Homeschooling, Tommy on Apr 21st, 2014
Ben is staying with us for a couple days, so I’m having to make Tommy’s schoolwork preschooler-friendly. Today we learned greater than/less than/equal to with duplos!
This Week at Charis Classical Academy…
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Susanna, Tommy on Apr 16th, 2014
We love, love, love Susan Wise Bauer’s Writing With Ease program. This week, Tommy’s narration and copywork passages are from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (via Green’s King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table). The girls always love listening in on his stories and helping answer the questions, and I decided they […]
Sewing Lessons
Posted in Elizabeth, Homemaking, Homeschooling on Apr 15th, 2014
Elizabeth’s favorite part of “school” is sewing time with Mommy.
Our Sketches (from Gardens of the World)
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Susanna, Tommy on Mar 7th, 2014
I was going to try to scan them in or something, but taking pictures was faster. Tommy: Elizabeth: Susie (note the footprint where she stepped on it):
Sketching at Gardens of the World
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Friends, Homeschooling, Susanna, Tommy on Mar 6th, 2014
We try to do some kind of field trip with Katie and Jack every week or so. This week, we stayed in TO and visited the Gardens of the World Botanical Gardens with sketching materials.
Tommy Blogs: My First Trip to the Symphony
Posted in California, Homeschooling, Music, Tommy on Feb 26th, 2014
I liked going to the symphony. First there was Mother Goose suites and then there was music for a Brazilian carnival. And then (this is what we have been learning about), Pictures at an Exhibition! It was music composed to paintings because a man named Victor Hartmann painted many paintings and then he died when […]
The Sea Center in Santa Barbara
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Friends, Homeschooling, Susanna, Tommy on Feb 13th, 2014
This week, Katie and Jack met us up in Santa Barbara again for me to buy my new camera lens (!!!) and check out the little sea center that’s part of our SB Natural History Museum membership. It was pretty small, but I think we actually enjoyed ourselves more than at the Monterey Bay Aquarium […]
UCLA’s Exploring Your Universe Science Fair
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Nov 19th, 2013
After dropping Grandma off at LAX on Sunday, we headed over to UCLA for a huge science fair put on by the science departments. Perfect for homeschoolers! The kids got to visit all sorts of booths on things like finding exoplanets, looking at the sun through special telescopes, food chemistry, making ice cream with liquid […]