June marks the the end of our first homeschooling term. We’ve been taking plennnty of breaks in between; mostly because of fields trips, extra classes and playdates. Those have been good interruptions, depending on whether you see them as punctuations in the whole composition that is homeschooling, or as part of the script. We [...]
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Reflections
The first half of the year’s over . What a relief. Between the frantic rushing from here to there, has been snatches of academics thrown in with half-caught moments of spontaneous learning: in between waiting for traffic lights to change, in between lesson preparations and pouring over books, in between throwing food into the pan [...]
The Terrible Plague by Joy, dd9
I Joy, dd9, wrote this piece for a writing assignment early this year. I thought she had given some nifty descriptions of the situation, writing from a first person’s point of view. Well, enjoy! ” The Terrible Plague of London I wasn’t going to celebrate my birthday in 1665. My mind rang with the same [...]
Gusts of wind, the waterhorse and the ordinariness of Christmas.
A sheaf of wind. The Waterhorse Suite. Children’s voices playing. Quiet. I live for such days!! We’re done with the pre-Christmas flurry of carolling, gatherings, performances and gifts. Is Christmas ever complete without these? I suppose so. Several Christmases back, all we could manage were home-made gifts for each other and a Christmas tree the [...]
A Note for Dog Lovers
We adopted a dog several weeks ago. She’s a mixed-breed with some retriever and German Shepherd genes plus, I suspect, a hint of terrier thrown in what with her incessant digging and poking into holes. We’ve spent quite a bit on deworming medicines, Frontline (anti-tick spray/application), dog food and dog food. So caught up were [...]
Homeschooling and Us :Projects (3)
Here’s a collage of several projects that we did this year. The first one is a model of the cell of an animal. We also had fun dyeing a cloth purple by using grapeskins. We experimented with different kinds of arrow heads. Of course, we wished we had the real ones, but our construction paper [...]
