Seth and Zoe have me all to themselves now that the two older ones are going to public school. We are having fun! On day one of our third year of homeschooling, we drove out to our friends’ house in (what we call) the country. The Alders expanded their chicken coop and have new [...]
Posted on September 8th, 2011 by trish
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Our back-to-school date is always September 1. It’s the magic time when all video game playing ceases and Harry gets back on the Hogwarts Express. Magic, I tell you, because my kids automatically know that it’s time to hit the books. This year will be a little bit different. We decided during registration that Zack [...]
Posted on September 5th, 2011 by trish
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Seth and Zack are fascinated by poop. I attribute their love of toilet humor to their being boys. It’s just funny to them. After I decreed that Captain Underpants, Pokemon and other manga books were no longer acceptable forms of reading, Seth came home from the library with this book, Jurassic Poop. He thought it [...]
Posted on November 15th, 2010 by trish
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It’s our second year of homeschooling and the picture above is from our second day. The boys are getting a spelling test and Zoe is just happy to have her own pencil, paper and clipboard. Sarah is at band, so we have an hour to do a bit of spelling and then play at the [...]
Posted on September 5th, 2010 by trish
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Last night we played the telephone game. You know that game where someone starts by whispering something into someone’s ear. That person gets only one listen and then must repeat it as accurately as possible to the next person in line. And it continues down the line until the last person says aloud what was [...]
Posted on April 26th, 2010 by trish
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We finished reading a chapter in our history book about Ancient Africa last week. Because Ancient Africans left few writings and artifacts, what we know of the time period is based mostly on oral history passed down. A favorite character in many stories is Anansi the Spider. We read a couple of stories, but the [...]
Posted on February 22nd, 2010 by trish
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We were able to continue the tradition of giving out valentines when we were invited to a homeschooling Valentine’s Day party. (Aside: We were able to call it a Valentine’s Day party without fear of hysterics from the atheist/non-denomination parents since all in attendance would be LDS. Another perk from homeschooling is we don’t have [...]
Posted on February 11th, 2010 by trish
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Wow, it’s really dusty here. Glad I just picked up some Pledge to take care of the mess that has accumulated in my absence. (No really, this stuff works great and smells really good, too.) I just took care of 71 spam comments. People find me whenever I post something to Friendfeed or Facebook and [...]
Posted on January 25th, 2010 by trish
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We took a field trip to the Children’s Museum of Houston. We used to have season passes when we first moved here and it was one of our favorite places to go. We haven’t been there in a while and I thought that it would be more of the same stuff, but I was pleasantly [...]
Posted on November 2nd, 2009 by trish
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Our first time visiting the Downtown Aquarium Houston was pretty fun. There is a lot to be said for going during the off season. We went through the inside exhibits almost completely on our own. There was an Asian guy there by himself and my mom kept having to take pictures of him with stuff, [...]
Posted on November 1st, 2009 by trish
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