Tag: weekly report
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Holiday Homeschool Happenings
With all the holiday happenings, plus my grandmother’s passing on Thanksgiving day, I’m just beginning to get my head back on straight — so this post is probably a bit more disjointed than usual. I got on a SUPER house cleaning spree earlier this week — partly because it’s therapeutic for me, and partly because…
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Homeschool Week: Farmer’s Market, Cute Dog, a Weird Car, and MORE Summer
We’re past Labor Day now… which means summer is unofficially gone, but it’s still feeling plenty hot around here, and I am soooo ready for fall weather. History, Math, Literature Kathryn is enjoying history (America the Beautiful). In fact, she asks to do things like vocabulary words or writing assignments so she’ll have papers to…
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Our crazy homeschool (& a shiny new friend)
I’m trying to organize my weekly reports a little better, with subheadings and stuff. Hope it makes for easier reading! 😉 The basics After much thought and prayer, I decided to drop geometry for Lindsey. She doesn’t need it now, nor will she likely need it for whatever career path she may take. If she…
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The Week with a Mad Scientist!
SCIENCE: Ken helped Lindsey with another experiment this week involving the density of salt water to make an egg float. Kathryn was the salt dispenser, so she got to help a bit, too. The instructions always say to wear safety goggles, even though I think the worst that might happen in this particular experiment would…
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The week with a mischievous guest
Kathryn finished up the last of her straggling 5th grade math lessons last week, but I really like that we spaced it out so that we don’t have a big gap of time between levels. Her dad’s scheduled vacation changed, so now she’ll be away at the beach with him week after next, rather than…