Category: homeschool
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Wrapping Up Our Homeschool Year
Now that we’ve finished up this school year and I’m finishing plans for the next year, I’ve been reflecting on what went well this year, and what didn’t go so well. This was Lindsey’s first year of homeschooling; before she came to live with us, she’d never even known anyone who homeschooled. We enrolled her…
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Weekly Wrap-Up: Done!
Pardon me while I do the happy dance — because this week concludes our school year! Woohoo! Next week I plan to post sort of a yearly wrap-up to help me figure out what we did well, and what we need to change. Kathryn provided our handiwork this week; she is making friendship bracelets for…
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Why I Homeschool
(This post was written back in May of 2008 on my old Rose Cottage blog, but worth a repost, as it’s all still relevant!) As I’m ordering books for next year and working on my lesson plans, I am thinking all the more about the reason why I choose to homeschool. I hope you find…
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Weekly Wrap-Up: Itching to finish the Year
I am sooooo itching to be done with school it’s not even funny. I’ve never felt like this before! I think that’s because this year has just felt like survival mode because of jumping into homeschooling Lindsey even before I really knew much of anything about her learning style or skill levels or anything. I…
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Field Trip: Atlanta Botanical Gardens
I had grand plans at the beginning of the school year that we would do a field trip each month. Ha! That didn’t happen, but there’s always next year, and this was a busier year than I expected when I made those plans. Anyway, yesterday we did field trip to the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. I…