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Weekly Report: Week 4
One month under our belts in this homeschool year! Although it doesn’t seem like we accomplished all that much, this has felt like a busy week. I think partly because the pollen has been trying to kill me, but mostly because it’s been Ken’s week to work late, which always messes with our schedules and…
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What I’ve Been Reading
I’m never not reading something. I have stacks of books all over the house: next to my big green chair in my bedroom, next to my favorite chair in the living room, on the ottoman, on the fireplace hearth… all ready for when I unexpectedly have time to squeeze in a chapter or two. Here’s…
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Weekly Report: Week 3
We started the week out wonderfully with a fantastic all day nature study/field trip! (See more about Canoeing the Chestatee!) I’m looking forward to doing more field trips this year, and this was a great first field trip for our homeschool year! Kathryn’s weekly enrichment classes are going well, and she is still so excited…
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A Day in the Life of our Homeschool!
I wake up at about 7:00AM so that I can make sure Lindsey is up and getting ready for school. (After her first day, she told me that no one had ever gotten up with her when she went to school before. So even though she’s doing great with getting herself out of bed, I’m…
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Canoeing the Chestatee (Nature Study!)
One of the moms in our homeschool support group has started a sort of off-shoot group for monthly outdoor adventures that focus on the beauty of God’s creation. Yesterday was the group’s inaugural trip: canoeing on the Chestatee River in the mountains of north Georgia. That sounded like a whole lot of fun, so we…
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Weekly Report: Week 2
Hurray for the second completed week of our homeschool year! Kathryn very much enjoys her enrichment classes. In art, they talked about English artist John Constable, who especially loved painting clouds and landscapes. Although he painted in oils, they are working on some watercolor techniques to paint landscapes. In her “American Girls” class, they discussed…