My Facebook feed exploded this week with precious pictures of kids decked out for the first day of school. I love it. I love this time of year. Even after all these years (almost 20 since I graduated from high school), I still get butterflies in my stomach when it's time for school to start. It's strange, but I do. As a homeschooling mom, the anxiety that can come with a new school year is ...
Homeschooling
Homeschool Planning for 2014-2015
So, it's the end of April, and you know what that means: school is winding down. Whether you homeschool or not, you know that this is the time of year that kids start staring out windows, dreaming of summer and teachers start taking stock. We start evaluating, planning and dreaming, too. What will we do the same? What will we do differently? What worked? What didn't? (We also ...
Making sense of phonics….
My daughter was reading a sentence that included the words "shoes" and "toes." Now, she knows how to pronounce both, but seeing them together like that caused an unforeseen pronunciation problem. She kept wanting to rhyme. So, she said, "Shows and toes. No, shoes and toos." It was hysterical and kept going for a few minutes while we laughed. But it reminded me that the most ...
A cup of coffee and an attitude check….
This has been one of those mornings. The kind of morning that leaves me thinking that "school," any "school," would be better than homeschool. I'm just being honest here. I sent my little scholar right up to her room after poor effort and the attitude it reflected got the better of me. So, I sat down with a piece of dark chocolate and a frothy cup of coffee and took stock. Not just of her ...