Category Archive for 'Elizabeth'
Did you know that Amazon Prime has a whole season of Reading Rainbow streaming right now? It’s a good thing, because all five of us our seriously under the weather. Tommy and I are too hoarse to do much reading aloud, the kids have an impressive symphony of coughing right now, and Janie woke up […]
My Substitute Teacher
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Tommy on Oct 5th, 2015
On days when I’m too sick to teach, I now have a willing substitute phonics teacher who can help his sister finish her lessons until Mommy gets her voice back.
Fine Arts Time with Beacon Hill Academy-DenHartog Campus
Posted in Elizabeth, Friends, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Sep 28th, 2015
It’s amazing how motivated children can be when you tell them they can play with friends after schoolwork is done. Tommy was up before 7 am, working on math, in order to be free to play with James this afternoon! Elizabeth buckled down on her work, too, flying through her phonics, handwriting, and math test. […]
What About Socialization?
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Sep 25th, 2015
Every time someone asks me the stupidest question about homeschooling, I picture this scene from yesterday. Just a normal homeschool park day. Tommy is in the background, playing baseball with the four other big boys after catching geckos for a while. All the girls, from two-year-old Janie up to 12 year olds Peyton and London, […]
The Mighty Grapes and Blue Lightning worked hard this weekend.
School Scenes
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Susanna, Tommy on Sep 9th, 2015
Attitude check, first day of Writing With Ease, the ubiquitous tutu (and pillows off the couch), and trying to figure out another way to understand the hundred numbers chart.
Life has gotten busy this week. So much for trying to stay off my foot and rest–between real schoolwork, ballet, three soccer practices, grocery shopping, and play dates, we’ve been busy all day, every day. And my foot is definitely feeling it. Tonight the kids are out on the back patio, riding around as dusk […]
Official First Day of School
Posted in Elizabeth, Friends, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Aug 31st, 2015
In case you missed it on facebook, we celebrated our official first day of school today with the traditional name/age/grade signs and a joint school session with Beacon Hill Academy–DenHartog Campus!
It’s a good thing we have so many flower girl dresses around the house. The girls are currently big into playing wedding!