home school

Six Thoughts from The School for Wiggly Boys

  By the end of the homeschool day, I have this NEED to zone out. Does herding children all day…

9 years ago

We are not polar bears. Don’t struggle alone.

Being a mom these days feels sort of like trying to accomplish the impossible. Clean the house, feed the people…

9 years ago

Our New School

The boys are watching VeggieTales, John David is taking a nap, and Alan is at a CPR class that he…

9 years ago

A Week of Serious Breakthroughs

When I started college in 1999, the computer world looked absolutely nothing as it looks today. We barely used email,…

9 years ago

Help! There’s a One Year Old in the Classroom!

 The morning hour was going extremely, unusually, unbelievably well today. No one was talking over anyone. No one was saying,…

9 years ago

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Book, Movie, and Field Trip

I finally hit upon a CHAPTER book that the boys love enough to read, even without me. Charlie and the…

9 years ago

12 Things I’ve Learned from Home Schooling

We have officially made it through our very first QUARTER of home-schooling!!!  To me, this is the biggest deal since…

9 years ago

Classical Conversations: Trying to Figure out what the heck I’m doing

This week Alan was excited to get to go to Classical Conversations with us. He went to Joshua's class, and…

10 years ago

Centers for our Homeschool

We just completed our second week of Classical Conversations, and man oh man, is it a lot to memorize for…

10 years ago

New 1st/2nd Grade Reading Plan

I mentioned in my last home schooling post that my first grader is struggling a little with reading. I also…

10 years ago