What are Your Ideas for Making this School Year Exciting?

So, What are Your Ideas for Making this School Year Exciting and Different?Here are some of my ideas: Start a Nature Journal Once a week go outside and study something in nature (We take Fridays for our nature study.) Give your kids a notebook with some blank pages, you may want to print out some free nature or animal pages also, and take one day a week to just go outside and see whats happening...

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My plan for using Teaching the Classics

I am using "Teaching the Classics" this year with my second and fourth graders. I am really excited about this program. It's not a curriculum per se, but rather an outline for the teacher on how to teach your students to analyze and dissect any literary work. I have been watching the videos and reading the manual for about a week now. I think I'm ready to start our first book and discussion. Here are my plans:week 1Read "Where the Wild Things Are" and use the Socratic method to analyze SettingRead...

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Finally Getting Started

Well, we just officially started our new school year today. Yea! We were supposed to start three weeks ago but unfortunate circumstances seriously delayed us. This is the latest we have ever started a school year, but that's the great thing about homeschooling, you can always rearrange your schedule when things come up and still make it work in the end. We are kind of starting off slow this week,...

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Poetry Memorization

I have been reading about poetry memorization for a while now and I finally decided to start it with Juliet. I am going to purchase IEW's poetry memorizatiion cd's for next year, but for the remainder of this year I decided to just pick out the poems myself.Juliet started a poetry notebook. We are just using a sketch book. If you open it up to a two page spread, we typed up the poem on computer paper and cut it out and pasted it on the left side, the page on the right side is reserved for her...

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What's with the Attitude?

I am really having a hard time with my 7 yo son. His attitude is so difficult right now. He complains about doing everything and this is really making my life hard right now. It is affecting my daughter too because we do many subjects together. He stops our reading with complaining and when asked to do a notebooking page he will say his hand hurts too bad to finish. This week has been the worst. He had me in tears on Tuesday, I just couldn't take it anymore.I want to be a good mom to him....

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Thoughtful Thursdays January 29, 2009

Today's date is...January 22,2009This week my greatest challenges have been...my son's bad attitude toward doing anythingThings I wanted to do this week but didn't get around to doing...cleaning, cleaning, and more cleaningOur favorite thing we did in school this week was...learning about Daniel Boone and the wilderness roadOur least favorite thing we did in school this week was...spellingMy biggest...

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Thoughtful Thursdays January 22, 2009

Today's date is...January 22,2009This week my greatest challenges have been...trying to battle my kids bad attitudes Things I wanted to do this week but didn't get around to doing...too much to mention...mostly things related to my homeschool websiteOur favorite thing we did in school this week was...Our state notebooking sheets. Both kids love to learn about a new stateOur least favorite thing...

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