Good morning. Yesterday was a very productive day for me. It was nice to be able to get out and rake leaves. I am at an age to appreciate what I can still do. My dad was blessed with being able to do most things until he passed away. What a blessing that is! Perhaps I am just more grateful for everything the older I get.
I, too, feel the same about being very grateful for what I can do, Kathaleena. I realize that every door that closes actually opens several others that went unopened before. It’s fun to find those new doors!
We continue with damp dreary weather and by Sunday we will be down to the thirties.
Good morning. We also had a productive day. I finally got the solar light installed in the chicken pen. We finally got everything perishable OUT of the garden. I am still slogging through processing it. I made a big pot of squash soup, and a baked zucchini dish. I had made a big pot of calabacitas last weekend.
Now, for another day of school. We have been reading through the Bible as part of our school day. It has been so cool how the books of the law have lined up with the stories in the Gospel. Yesterday we were reading about the feast of tabernacle in Leviticus, and in Mark the transfiguration of Jesus, with Peter wanting them to build Moses and Elijah a booth.
RKessler, I have been reading in Exodus today about the initial setting up of the tabernacle and it anointing.
It sounds like you are doing a great job with homeschooling. Are you following a particular method or doing something based on your own putting together of various resources?
It is a conglomeration. We use Saxon for math, wordly wise for spelling (he absolutely hates spelling and we have been using abeka. He really is enjoying this curriculum and is even more happy that he is the one who chose it.). We use abeka for history. We are trying something new with language arts, learning language arts through literature. I had tried it with my girls and did not like it. I feel like he is benefiting from all aspects. The dictation portion is helping with listening. You should have heard our poor singing skills yesterday when we were doing the Star Spangled Banner. We also do daily grams. Science is a combination of a series of creation based books and a workbook that he picked out. He hates the workbook. I paid money for it so we are utilizing by me reading the lesson out loud, while he answers the questions. I, hope, it is teaching him to listen and glean pertinent information from ‘lectures’.
We used Saxon and Wordly Wise, too. Great choices. I had a Hodge lodge of other things we used that we bought at Used Curriculum sales. I did find that Apologia science worked well at one point. We used Abeka science one year. I also tried to use The Well Trained Mind book to guide studies in literature, history and maybe geography . . . social studies and humanities. We did all that until I started carrying him to classes for homeschool students at churches.
The first five years we used Calvert School curriculum and once a month he turned in a test to a correspondence teacher. That was a good way for me to learn the ropes of teaching before doing it all on my own.
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Good morning. Yesterday was a very productive day for me. It was nice to be able to get out and rake leaves. I am at an age to appreciate what I can still do. My dad was blessed with being able to do most things until he passed away. What a blessing that is! Perhaps I am just more grateful for everything the older I get.
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Good morning, Wanderers.
I, too, feel the same about being very grateful for what I can do, Kathaleena. I realize that every door that closes actually opens several others that went unopened before. It’s fun to find those new doors!
We continue with damp dreary weather and by Sunday we will be down to the thirties.
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I found an interesting seasonal article:
https://www.baptistpress.com/resource-library/news/americans-skeptical-about-paranormal-phenomena/
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Good morning. We also had a productive day. I finally got the solar light installed in the chicken pen. We finally got everything perishable OUT of the garden. I am still slogging through processing it. I made a big pot of squash soup, and a baked zucchini dish. I had made a big pot of calabacitas last weekend.
Now, for another day of school. We have been reading through the Bible as part of our school day. It has been so cool how the books of the law have lined up with the stories in the Gospel. Yesterday we were reading about the feast of tabernacle in Leviticus, and in Mark the transfiguration of Jesus, with Peter wanting them to build Moses and Elijah a booth.
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RKessler, I have been reading in Exodus today about the initial setting up of the tabernacle and it anointing.
It sounds like you are doing a great job with homeschooling. Are you following a particular method or doing something based on your own putting together of various resources?
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It is a conglomeration. We use Saxon for math, wordly wise for spelling (he absolutely hates spelling and we have been using abeka. He really is enjoying this curriculum and is even more happy that he is the one who chose it.). We use abeka for history. We are trying something new with language arts, learning language arts through literature. I had tried it with my girls and did not like it. I feel like he is benefiting from all aspects. The dictation portion is helping with listening. You should have heard our poor singing skills yesterday when we were doing the Star Spangled Banner. We also do daily grams. Science is a combination of a series of creation based books and a workbook that he picked out. He hates the workbook. I paid money for it so we are utilizing by me reading the lesson out loud, while he answers the questions. I, hope, it is teaching him to listen and glean pertinent information from ‘lectures’.
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We used Saxon and Wordly Wise, too. Great choices. I had a Hodge lodge of other things we used that we bought at Used Curriculum sales. I did find that Apologia science worked well at one point. We used Abeka science one year. I also tried to use The Well Trained Mind book to guide studies in literature, history and maybe geography . . . social studies and humanities. We did all that until I started carrying him to classes for homeschool students at churches.
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hodge podge
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The first five years we used Calvert School curriculum and once a month he turned in a test to a correspondence teacher. That was a good way for me to learn the ropes of teaching before doing it all on my own.
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Thanks, Janice.
I’m following your lead and donating 20 pounds of rice, 20 pounds of beans, and lots of 1 pound zip lock bags to our former church’s food pantry.
(They’re still friendly to us).
M
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