Posted in school on June 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Tomorrow morning hubby and I are off to our state homeschool conference put on by OCEAnetwork.
The main speaker is Voddie Baucham who is a preacher and homeschool dad. I am so looking forward to hearing him speak. It should be great. They will have the curriculum sale as well as the used book sale available [...]
Posted in girls, school on June 10, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Dear Homeschool Parents,
I have a child. She is wonderfully cute, joyful, smart, and social, not to mention very funny. She is very young for her grade because of where her birthday falls. While she technically a 1st grader right now, she is more at a Kindergarten level. She is reluctant to learn. She is simply [...]
Posted in school on June 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Our local curriculum fair is happening this weekend. Tonight was the presale and the pre-pre-sale. I get to go to the pre-pre-sale because I am working both days and it’s my incentive to volunteer. This is my third year doing this and I love it. I look forward to it each year.
I was [...]
Posted in girls, life, school on May 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I started a new blog. Yep, I now have two that I will be writing in. The focus on From the Narrows is to write about my life, what I am accomplishing, struggling with, have opinions about etc. The purpose of
Classic Academy
is to write about the girls solely. I will be writing about our [...]
Posted in homekeeping, school on April 25, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The bed is making a transformation. I will post a picture when it is finished. I found king size shams on clearance on Lands End. I found a bed skirt on sale today and I bought a bolster pillow. The pillow was not on sale but it wasn’t hugely expensive either. I really [...]
Posted in girls, school on April 8, 2008 | 5 Comments »
My oldest girl aka, Princess spoke these words today:
“Division is a sorrow for me. It will be a heavy burden the rest of my life.”
Yes, we’ve recently watched Anne of Green Gables and the girls have been listening to it on audio tape checked out from the library. I just love how what they read [...]
Posted in life, school on April 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
But rarely a Monday. I got up at 8:00, well 8:15 but who’s counting. The girls were all out of bed, dressing, fixing themselves up. They are currently doing their math, without being told and little one is coloring. Me…I am in my jammies, reading my email and blogs and typing this post, [...]
Posted in school on April 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My little girl (6) loves to do lapbooks and during this busy crazy season in our home, I just don’t have the time to put one together for her. I am much in favor of the premade lapbooks that I can find either free (currclick.com and various other websites) or very cheap. Even better is [...]
Posted in contest, school on March 20, 2008 | No Comments »
One of my friends from bloggy land is going to be a rep for Rosetta Stone. She and her daughter will represent them at homeschool conventions. How fun is that. And good news for us, in that she is able to give a brand new language program away. Follow the instructions below to enter in [...]
Posted in school on March 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hi—-
If you are a bit confused about the Judges ruling on homeschooling in CA, please read a post from Mangotime. Fletch helps to put things into perspective. It is frightening to think that our rights to choose the how to best educate our children might be at risk. Just because we live in Oregon doesn’t [...]
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