Melissa | September 26, 2011
This will be Week 2 of our Revolutionary War Unit. You can find those activities here.
Science: Nervous System, Senses, Brain
Intro: http://kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/htbw_main_page.html
I have the kids listen to the audio of the article after we watch the video.
Make a model of the spinal cord (Lesson 3). I’m considering making Sculpey vertebrae instead of tracking down wooden spools.
Knee [...]
Melissa | September 26, 2011
If you bake out all the collagen from a bone, and tap it with a mallet, it shatters.
The Pilgrims built rectangular houses out of lumber.
The Wampanoags built dome-shaped houses with large pieces of bark as walls.
In the midst of keeping up with schooling, we’ve been finishing the last of our paper chase. We were assigned [...]
Melissa | September 24, 2011
I interrupt the normally scheduled Thing Adoptive Parents Should Know . Did you even notice that was a weekly Saturday occurence? Probably not.
In case you’re wondering, we’re still having physicals corrected AGAIN for our home study. I’d rather not talk about it.
Homeschooling. There’s a happier subject. At least today. We’re doing really well despite a false [...]
Melissa | September 23, 2011
I’ve always wanted a guest bedroom. Our first apartment had a single bedroom. The hand-me-down pullout sofa was a poor excuse for guest quarters. Our first house was smaller than our first apartment with 2 tiny bedrooms and the same pullout sofa. Then we lived with my parents in a modest 3-bedroom 1.5 bath that [...]
Melissa | September 18, 2011
This represents about half of our potato crop this year.
Pretty pathetic when you considered we planted 20 spuds.
Melissa | September 17, 2011
Let me preface this post to say that I’m not expert on neuroreorganization. We haven’t even used it in our family…just considered it. However, I am a huge proponent of solutions for kids from hard places that do not include drugs. If nothing else, the research and testimonials for neuroreorganization are compelling and if you’re [...]
Melissa | September 16, 2011
History: Revolutionary War
Like I mentioned before, we’re going to do a 3 week Revolutionary War unit that spans 3 weeks (including Week #3 and #4 for Classical Conversations). I should also mention that the activity books that I reference have a ton more activities than we can obviously fit in. The ones I list of [...]
Melissa | September 14, 2011
With only 24 weeks in the Classical Conversations year, the memory work is really a broad sweeping outline with plenty of room to fill in the gaps. As far as early American history goes, the biggest gap so far is Jamestown (the first permanent colony).
We just happened to be in the area this past weekend [...]
Melissa | September 10, 2011
Weeks 3 and 4 cover Revolutionary War events. In addition, we have an “off” week for CC after Week 4. I’ve decided to design a 3 week American Revolution unit for us to cover those weeks since the CC memory work really doesn’t do this important period in our history justice. I don’t have it [...]
Melissa | September 10, 2011
The adoption process (either getting your child home or parenting your child) will undoubtedly bring stress. I actually thought our second time through would be easier because we had experience on our side. WRONG. Learn to deep breath and then turn it all over to God. Otherwise your blood pressure numbers may be prohibitive in [...]
