Posted by Becky on March 19th, 2008 | Categorized as Homeschool Happenings
So I’m still hard at work on a redesign for this site. It’s really coming along. I was given the inspiration to redesign when I happened upon the Probama Theme for WordPress by Category 4. Now, I don’t have anything in particular to say about Obama at the moment, so my need for an Obama [...]
Posted by Becky on March 7th, 2008 | Categorized as Homeschool Happenings
We are actually on Week 27 of Interlock this week (creation of man) but RJ still has bugs on the brain. This week, he has been asking that his “free research time” be centered around carnivorous plants. We found a few worthwhile websites simply by googling carnivorous plants. We were especially mezmorized, however, with the [...]
Posted by Becky on February 15th, 2008 | Categorized as Daily Goings On, Homeschool Happenings
We had a lovely Valentine’s Day over here, including a visit and dinner over at the grandparents. Just wanted to quickly post to let you know I’ll be updating the Library section of the site tonight with some of the recent books we’ve been reading, and sprucing up the sidebar with our recent Interlock unit, [...]
Posted by Becky on December 13th, 2007 | Categorized as Homeschool Happenings
Maybe it’s the perfectionist in me, but I just love it when our Interlock curriculum dovetails with the current season, or current events. We have been studying stars in week 16 and 17 of The Weaver Interlock in homeschool so far this December. I’ve been happily working in the Christmas star books like the [...]
Posted by Becky on November 26th, 2007 | Categorized as Homeschool Happenings
Had to include one more book about seasons that we read today. What Makes the Seasons by Megan Montague Cash. It was adorable, well written, and very fun for my 1st grader to read. My Pre-k DD seemed to enjoy listening to it as well. I highly recommend it. Check it out in my library [...]