Archive for the ‘Homeschooling’ Category

18
Mar

Spring, and I’m not ready

   Posted by: MotherHen   in Gardening, Homeschooling, Moving House, Rabbits

It’s Spring Break in San Antonio, and I barely noticed.  Correct me if I’m wrong, but I know I’m not, shouldn’t Spring Break happen during the Springtime?  Just a thought.

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I really do enjoy times when the incarcerated children aren’t required to report, because that means we won’t be glared at over the fence by all our neighbors if we dare to venture out into our back yard during “school hours”.

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I would have chosen a different week for it.  Maybe sometime during the next season called Spring.  Just sayin’.

Even so, we have had some uncommonly beautiful weather the past several days.  It’s due to rain maybe  tomorrow or more likely, Saturday.

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You’ll remember that I’m not planting a garden this Spring due to our imminent move sometime in June.  But there is something very compelling about all that sunshine.  I’m planting a container garden, but that’s so limited.  I’ve never done a container tomato plant before, peppers either.  I still haven’t planted the lettuce and spinach seeds, but the buckets are ready.

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We’re looking for lots of baby rabbits next weekend.  See?  Rabbits understand about Spring.

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17
Mar

More Homeschool Stuff

   Posted by: MotherHen   in History, Homeschooling

We listened to #1 of these Biographies of Great American Saints today(Cotton Mather by George Grant), and tomorrow we’ll go back for #2 (Patrick Henry by Steve Wilkins).

With any educational resource my first concern is, “Can my kids learn the material using this resource?”   My next concern is, “Do I have the time and ability to use it?”

With an audio presentation we are miles ahead.  The kids learn well this way, and I can totally click the play button and then sit down to a sack of yarn and a crochet hook!

Oh yeah!  My third consideration goes like this, see if this sounds familiar, “Can I afford it?”

These lectures are FREE!

HT to Perry!

Pssst.  I know y’all think you know where that last link for Perry leads, but give it a click.  You may be surprised!

Here’s your shortcut back to Works for Me Wednesday.

17
Mar

Teaching Textbooks

   Posted by: MotherHen   in Homeschooling, MATH STINKS!!!, Math

All I know is that the Homeschool Convention/Conference (?) will be on May 14th and 15th and I’ll be the Teaching Textbooks representative!

{squeal!!!}

I can’t wait!  I love homeschool conventions, and I don’t often get to go, but this time I’ll be there for the whole thing.  Don’t guess I’ll get to go to any workshops, but the fun part is getting to be in the company of so many other homeschoolers!

  • Talk to homeschoolers all day?

Check, I can do this.

  • Bemoan my inability to teach math?

Check, check, I can do this.

  • Sing the praises of a math curriculum my kids beg to get to use. . . every day?

Check.mark.palooza!

  • Get paid for havin’ fun?

It’s one of my super-powers!

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Parsley outside my backdoor!

El Niño, La Niña,  whatever, I forget how it goes, but I think that due to the oppressive heat we had this Summer, we are having a very wet Winter.  Or maybe the wet Winter is a harbinger of a mild Summer to come?  I don’t know, but we have had rain near ’bout every four days ’round these parts all Winter long!  I’ll try not to complain because I know we have it very easy in the Winter.  This is our time to shine!   We seldom get snow, and when we do, it’s hardly anything to worry about.  Also, the rain we’ve gotten lately is sorely needed.  So, I’ll try to not sound too whiney.  OK?  I’ll try.

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Never buy plastic fencing, even though it’s cheaper than the wire fences.

BUT!

I’m really sick of the mud, and the kids being in the house so much.  See, one of the trade offs that Texans are so proud of is that even though we huddle indoors listening to the humm of the a/c for most of the Summer, which, by the way, lasts about eight months here, the pay off comes in the Winter when we can enjoy the truly mild (yesterday the high was 79°) field trip weather.  Perfect for going to the Zoo, or bird watching, or cleaning up a long neglected backyard!

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I’ve had it with the rain and the resultant mud, and we have mud!  After our record breaking heat and drought this past Summer, there is no lawn, just mud Mud MUD!

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Rabbit cages, clothes lines, and dirt lawn – it’s the Redneck Tri-fecta!

Today is a great day.  It’s sunny, dry and 50°, so there is work going on out back.  If I had focused on laundry instead of rabbit breeding this morning I might have even hung some laundry on the line.  That’s ok, first things first.

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Tomorrow the forcast calls for more mud in the form of rain AND snow.  I have my doubts about the white stuff.  My kids have still never even seen it, and likely some of them doubt if it’s a really and truly real thing.  At least we’ll enter into this weeks wetness with a cleaned up yard!

21
Feb

Ephesians 4:25-32

   Posted by: MotherHen   in Bible, Copywork, Homeschooling

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Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil. Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.30And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.  Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

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