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Experiencing the Extraordinary

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I’m thrilled to announce that God flirted with us and sent a smidgen of rain to our parched landscape yesterday. After days and days and days of searing sunlight, seven hundred twelve degree temperatures and blue skies stretching from horizon to horizon, these clouds were a welcome sight. Hearing the rain splash against the window was another sensory delight…for everyone except Lacee.  It’s been so long since she heard rain, she thought someone must be at the door and went into attack dog mode. Somebody’s got to protect the family from those big scary raindrops! It had been so long … Continue reading Experiencing the Extraordinary

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Boarding the (Old Fogey) Bus

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When I was a little girl in the late 70s, the yellow school bus picked me up at dark thirty in the morning and bounced me around bumpy country roads before parking at the “bus barn” — a large parking lot next to the high school where the kids transferred from their neighborhood buses to the ones that would then drive them to their respective schools.  De-segretation meant the district no longer had neighborhood schools. But that’s not what I’m remembering today. What strikes me today is the weird feeling I had each morning as I sat in my bus … Continue reading Boarding the (Old Fogey) Bus

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From Audie Murphy to Algorithms

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I’m beginning to suspect that my child is a mathematical prodigy — at least compared to me! Our second day of seventh grade started out much smoother than our first.  Whereas she likened me to the Wicked Witch of the West for starting school “too early” (public schools don’t get started for another couple of weeks in our state) yesterday, today it was easier to get started on school work.  I guess we had to climb over the mental hump.  Sometimes I think my daughter pretends to hate school because that’s what she thinks she’s supposed to do.  Yet I … Continue reading From Audie Murphy to Algorithms

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Let the Good Times Commence

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I’m not sure whether to write “Let the Good Times Roll” or “Let the Schooling Commence!”  Perhaps I could combine it into “Let the Good Schooling Times Commence to Roll!”  Well…maybe not. Either way, today I had a ball pulling out all the materials I’ve accumulated over the summer in preparation for my daughter’s first year of junior high. Challenge A with Classical Conversations is the road we are on with some history-based literature thrown in for vocabulary building and more imaginative exploration of ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Tomorrow we will break out the planner and prepare for “our” … Continue reading Let the Good Times Commence

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Mish Mash

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Homeschooling Today we put our noses to the grindstone again after taking a few days off.  Between SAT testing last week and preparing for my husband’s graduation with his MBA, we didn’t have the time to “do” school. Today we started studying the Psalms not just for wisdom, but also as a way to study poetry.  We practiced reading Psalm 1 aloud and discussed its meaning.  Then I had my daughter write her own poem modeled after Psalm 1.  This activity gave her practice writing poetry and also was a way for me to see the level of internalizing she … Continue reading Mish Mash