An Elven-maid there was of old,
A shining star by day:
Her mantle white was hemmed with gold,
Her shoes of silver-grey.
A star was bound upon her brows,
A light was on her hair
As sun upon the golden boughs
In Lorien the fair.
Her hair was long, her limbs where white,
And fair she was and free;
And in the wind she went [...]
Oh my goodness, I’m so behind in this sort of thing! I’m not sure I’ll even remember much of what we’ve been up to. Here’s a bit though!
1. We went to a Civil War Days reenactment and had a fabulous time. We watched a battle, learned to do various ballroom dances, listened to Lincoln (okay, [...]
We’ve been homeschooling for three months now. Although we’re not required to submit quarterly reports the way that, say, New Yorkers are, it seems like a useful point to stop and reflect on how things are going.
At dinner I asked the family for their assessments.
Alex: It’s been going well. No… it’s been going medium.
Me: Medium, [...]
Maybe tomorrow I’ll post some first day pictures that will actually be taken on the second day. Today was…well one of those days we all have. One of those days you just want to walk your children a block and a half to the highest ranked elementary school in town.
And think about picking them up [...]
Do you have kids who want to learn Japanese? This fantastic article lists six different online resources that are all free. Sweet!
(Thanks to Secular Homeschoolers’ Facebook group for the head’s up!)
Last week we ran across a new kind of math problem that Alex hadn’t seen before:
3 + 2 = 1 + ___
She quickly told me that the answer was six (3 + 2 + 1), and when I said that it wasn’t she flipped out. It was too haaaard! She just didn’t knoooow! No matter [...]
We went to the Pueblo zoo today because our on-line school was paying for it. It’s supposed to be a meet and greet, of course we don’t know anyone in Pueblo. I just went because we’ve never been to that zoo before and I had some other things I wanted to do down there. The [...]
Math book
ByThe lost math book has been found. Funny when you tell your child, “I am sure, almost positive you know exactly where your math book is, because it was here and then I put it here and you were told to put it away.”
Yup.
The girls are in bed, not quite dreaming of all they will learn this year. One is in fact probably praying she finds her math book from last year. She isn’t quite finished with it and since it’s math I don’t want her to miss anything because we skip it.
I just had a thought, if [...]
Oh boy! Back to school I go. Well for free reading, I am reading, The Jungle Book, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, because I have already read The Fellowship of the Ring, and the Two Towers! Then I am going to finish up my Teaching Textbooks grade 6, and the last book [...]
