Northern and southern seasons.
For our final day with My Rows and Piles of Coins, I asked Alex how she would explain an illustration in which Saruni is engulfed in a man’s overcoat handed down by his father “for these chilly July...
View ArticleWrapping up The Bee Tree.
We finished up The Bee Tree today by reading the book one last time and studying the pictures carefully. Patricia Polacco’s illustrations have a lot of humor and detail to them, and even on this fifth...
View ArticleFinished with Duchess, but not the medieval era.
As I said before, we’re thinking we’ll stretch the medieval era into another week. But we formally finished up with The Duchess Bakes a Cake on Friday with some language arts lessons. We started off...
View ArticleLife is what happens while you’re making other plans.
Yesterday morning I woke Alex before dawn. Colin had to go to the ER because his stomach flu had led to serious dehydration. We spent a few hours there getting him tanked up with fluids. Then we came...
View ArticleListening to The Nutcracker.
It’s been quite a week. After Colin’s spectacular start to the week in the ER, he seems to be recovered – except for his lingering tendency to say “I want Mommy!” again and again while already sitting...
View ArticleFree time.
One of the benefits of homeschooling is that Alex has a lot more free time than many other kids her age. What sorts of things does she do? Lately it’s been a lot of crafts, such as this layered...
View ArticleMore Secrets of the World.
In All Those Secrets of the World, people’s reactions tend to be reported rather than explained. That makes it a good book to practice drawing inferences. (Most children’s books are helpfully explicit...
View ArticleWrapping up Scotland and Wee Gillis.
We finished up our Wee Gillis study today, because we’re leaving early tomorrow morning to spend the holiday weekend with my parents. It’s been a really fun week! I’ve been feeling as though some of...
View ArticleCaput apri defero, reddens laudes domino.
Outside the narrow world of classical homeschoolers, Latin is kind of a strange thing to study, with no obvious point or application. If you want your kids to learn Latin, it helps to cultivate a home...
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