Last week was the end of our 18th week of homeschooling and tomorrow is the midpoint of winter. It is hard to believe, but we are halfway through. In some ways it feels like it has been ages to get to this point, but in others it seems like I blinked and here we are….
Tag: Homeschooling
Switching Things Up: Finding time to write while homeschooling
My go-to writing time has usually been during our rest-time. I may have older children, but I still have a thirty minute period where they go upstairs and ready or play quietly while I have a little bit of peace and quiet. Truthfully, if I only had older children I don’t think that a rest-time…
Easing back into a morning routine: creating peace
I am slowly crawling my way back to a routine. I am a person who loves routine and daily rhythms. I don’t do a schedule. I hate time blocks and everything like that. Life is too unpredictable, but I like my routines. This follows that follows that. I think that life is meant to be…
Reading isn’t all it’s cracked up to be
I’m teaching my daughter to read using the Reading Lesson. I like this book. It’s simple looking with lots of white space. It takes the kids slowly through the process of introducing some of the phonetical sounds. (Nothing like teaching someone to read to notice how much of the English language is not phonetical at…