tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87893613010862481732024-03-12T20:01:50.982-07:00Flying Monkeys: Our Mad Home-School LifeMotherBearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770482972594773226noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8789361301086248173.post-81135091201245349732012-09-17T11:50:00.000-07:002012-09-17T11:50:21.736-07:00Sept UpdateLittle dudes are sick today, and so I'm taking a minute to update. Ebby is doing great with doing his K12 work. Part of the reason is that it is fairly simple for him. If it were more challenging, he would probably be giving more pushback. Hopefully by the time he gets to things he doesn't know, he'll have a foundation good enough to support the new learning.
Bobo is doing better. He's still on MotherBearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770482972594773226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8789361301086248173.post-39677486394052074502012-08-08T07:25:00.000-07:002012-08-08T07:25:43.167-07:00Don't Give Up
I think I was more tired yesterday than I have
been since we started school. This is about the stage where my enthusiasm wanes
and my desire to crawl into bed and read a good book by myself gets overwhelming.
I’m not the most consistent homeschool mom, but I’m not the most consistent
anything. I can do most things for about
6 to 8 weeks, and then I want to do something else. It can be MotherBearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770482972594773226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8789361301086248173.post-48129331350308295842012-08-07T05:17:00.000-07:002012-08-07T05:17:02.756-07:00The First Monday After School Starts Blues
I don’t know if other homeschool parents
experience this phenomenon, but I do every year. It’s a specific way the kids
behave the first Monday after the week we start homeschooling. I could describe
it in detail, but it’s pretty much outright rebellion.
It starts off with “I don’t want to do that
subject, but can I do this subject twice instead?” “That subject” is usually
math or language MotherBearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770482972594773226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8789361301086248173.post-62964891701932163962012-08-04T07:23:00.000-07:002012-08-04T07:23:55.307-07:00One Week Down and About 39 More to Go
We had a wonderful first week! I may sound overly
positive, but I’ve never used the words “wonderful” and “first week” together
before. Usually it’s “good,” “survived,” or “somewhat productive.” But we
actually had a wonderful first week.
With the exception of Thursday, which in itself
was a lesson learned, we accomplished everything we set out to accomplish each
day. The first two days we MotherBearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770482972594773226noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8789361301086248173.post-35890437403725651792012-08-02T15:40:00.002-07:002012-08-02T15:40:22.903-07:00Errands? NO!
Errands are not feasible on school days! The
morning started out very nice. We all woke up early. Since I had been putting
off going to the grocery since last week, Meme informed me that we were out of
cat food as of this morning. That leads
to the question of going now, this afternoon or sending my husband to do it.
My husband is a great shopper, but the last time I
sent him to the MotherBearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770482972594773226noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8789361301086248173.post-3684153872817879492012-07-31T14:22:00.000-07:002012-07-31T14:22:34.616-07:00New Starts - Here's to the 2012-13 School Year<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4ptMotherBearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770482972594773226noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8789361301086248173.post-56887528976591643692011-08-02T13:31:00.000-07:002011-08-02T13:31:28.586-07:00Meme & K12<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]>
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mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4ptMotherBearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770482972594773226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8789361301086248173.post-86879599953862989682011-08-01T14:02:00.000-07:002011-08-01T14:02:17.705-07:00Flexibility<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--><!--[if !mso]>
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mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4ptMotherBearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770482972594773226noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8789361301086248173.post-14921960239341778642011-06-19T20:12:00.000-07:002011-06-19T20:12:02.038-07:00Bad MonkeySorry I've been incommunicado for the last 2 weeks. I was literally sucked into the world of Hogwarts. Seriously. I'm part of a group that puts on a 2 week Hogwarts summer camp every year, and it is as fun as it sounds.
This is me on Animagus Day
I do have lots of things to write about in our homeschooling life, but I'm still fairly exhausted from 2 hectic, busy, exciting, exhilarating, fun MotherBearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770482972594773226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8789361301086248173.post-77714325629368553872011-06-04T08:54:00.000-07:002011-06-04T08:54:29.978-07:00Time Management? First I Need Time in Order to Manage It.<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--><!--[if !mso]>
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MotherBearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770482972594773226noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8789361301086248173.post-34570898734046756062011-06-01T11:37:00.000-07:002011-06-01T14:49:27.817-07:008th Grade LEAP Test Freak-OutGot a letter in the mail yesterday for Jojo from Connections Academy saying that she’ll have to take the 8th grade LEAP test before she can start 9th grade. Arghhh! I’m still on the fence as the whether or not to homeschool her for high school.
On my side for homeschooling, I think Algernon got a much deeper education in some area being at home. She certain read more classical literature (do youMotherBearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14770482972594773226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8789361301086248173.post-62089835625999521992011-05-31T07:13:00.000-07:002011-05-31T07:13:07.695-07:00Inference<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]>
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