There comes a time in every home schoolers life where they have a bad day. Bad days are created from various circumstances. There is no specific reason for why this happens. Like anything else in life, it just happens. We had a bad day a few days ago. Harmonie and exhaustion on both our parts played a huge part in this day. As I have mentioned … [Read more...]
Back to Business
It is the first Friday back after a long Christmas break. We made it through the first week back to school. Our last day of school was December 19th but the truth is we both checked out way before that. Over the break I realized how burnt out I had become from staring at my laptop writing articles and doing homework of my own. I took a few days off … [Read more...]
Our New Home School Room
Craft Modules Quite often, I see postings of beautiful home school rooms and I often dream of having one of our own. We live in a one bedroom apartment and home school in our dining room. I have spent this past year teaching at our dining room table with the dining room set up as if we are going to have guests over for dinner. We never have … [Read more...]
The New School Year Has Begun
The school book fairy left us these So, we are all about seven weeks into the new school year, depending on when you started. How are things going for all of you? This school year is not quite going as I planned it to go. It is not going like last year either. A little something happened on the way to the fourth grade. My eight year old grew … [Read more...]
Cyberbully
Do you monitor your children's internet usage? Do you think that children should be raised with morals? Who is responsible for children's bad behavior? I recently watched an ABC Family movie called "Cyberbully." This movie was about a young high school girl and her experience with cyber bullying. Her mother was a very protective mother who … [Read more...]
Home School in the News
Yesterday we were listening to talk radio, as we do often, and there was a story about a man who applied for a job, received the job offer, and it taken away before he started after the company found out he was home schooled. Of course the man, who's name is not in the article, is suing. The company has come up with every excuse possible for why … [Read more...]
Food Science
So my little Harmonie is a scientist at heart. Her mother on the other hand is not. Her mother was never interested in science growing up. So I have heard or read through the grapevine that home schoolers use Netflix, You Tube and other such resources to add in the home school process. Since we rarely have materials on hand for science projects, I … [Read more...]
Mommies Little Helper: Teaching 2 1/2 Year Olds Piano
Today I started a new piano student. She is a cute little 2 1/2 year old. She is a squirmy little thing but more than capable of learning to play. By today being her first lesson, she got squirming and tearful because she did not want to sit and play piano for too much of her time. This is a normal reaction for a typical 2 1/2 year old. The fact … [Read more...]
Much Needed Day Off
For the past two Friday's we have taken the day off. We have been going, going, going and have not come up for air until now. We went to the bay and spent the entire afternoon there until the sun sunset. Harmonie found many little kids, to her surprise, out on the water to play with. When she was in school, she was around a lot of kids that were … [Read more...]
How Do We Teach Our Kids to Trust in Something They Can’t See?
One day during school, Harmonie said something that made me take note that she was not completely on board with the existence of God. She can not see him, so he can't be real was keep of the jest of the conversation. We have this same conversation about her late father. I did my best to explain to her that just because you can not see something … [Read more...]