Well, Jules has been doing fine. There is nothing exciting to tell at the moment really. She consistently gets 80% or more for her spelling tests. Her maths is going perfectly, we’re still doing Calculator skills, but will be finished tomorrow. She’s enjoyed this part of the curriculum, though I’ve found it boring, many cups [...]
Filed under: Homeschool on March 17th, 2008 | No Comments »
Well, StJohn is storming ahead, he turned 6 on the 2 of January. He had his party, a pirate cake and was thrilled with it. I was exhausted and ordered it, I honestly just could not do it this year : ( He’s been doing numbers and letters since last year, but has really picked [...]
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Hi Everyone, Since we’re in South Africa, and constitutionally have the right now to homeschool our children, it is frightening to see that in places like America, that right can be taken away in a heartbeat. What would you do if suddenly you were breaking the law by homeschooling? Facing possible jail time? Well that’s [...]
Filed under: Homeschool on March 17th, 2008 | No Comments »
Hi Everyone, Today was the first day of our second week of Grade4 for Jules. At the beginning of last week, I felt all nervous again about homeschooling, so much work to do for this year, can we manage it? Can I manage it to be more honest. Well it took a few days to [...]
Filed under: Homeschool on January 21st, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hi Everyone I woke up this morning with a cracking headache. Got up made John breakfast, packed his lunch, fed the kids and went back to bed! When I woke up at 8:30 I felt a whole lot better. Really I was just exhausted, already. Jules was up last night with a mild dose of [...]
Filed under: Homeschool on January 16th, 2008 | No Comments »
Hi Everyone Okay today was way better then yesterday. Thank heavens for that! Juliette did a few new spelling words, english oral comprehension, which she enjoyed again. Then we did a maths worksheet (Grade 4) which took her under 5 minutes and she handed it to me and said, “That was too easy.” Okay so maths [...]
Filed under: Homeschool on January 15th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Okay so school wasn’t the only thing that went weird today. First thing this morning. My kids and I nipped out onto the deck, me to inhale fresh air and inject caffeine into my tired body, the kids to look at the mountain and ask me repeatedly, “Can we start school now?” This in itself [...]
Filed under: Homeschool on January 14th, 2008 | No Comments »
Hooha! That’s all I can say at this point. What a day and we’re only half way through it. From a school point of view, it was one of those hectic, nothing gels type days. Too much excitement about a new year I think. Juliette did her first English comprehension today and read it herself [...]
Filed under: Homeschool on January 14th, 2008 | No Comments »
Hi Everyone, We’re so bogged down with moving and planning, that school has taken a bit of a back seat at the moment. We’ve chosen to take time off to set up our Homestead before Christmas. I don’t see this as a problem, for the following reason… When I started Homeschooling Juliette she left school [...]
Filed under: Homeschool on October 10th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Hi Everyone Wow! We tackled Africa today. I took Juliette onto Google Earth (an indispensible Homeschool Resource) and showed her Africa in relation to the rest of the planet. The major thing she took away from this, was that she was astounded by the size of Africa, that it took up so much of the [...]
Filed under: Homeschool on September 26th, 2007 | No Comments »