home school

31/365 Today we got back to work on our radish-growing project. It’s always exciting to look inside our orange-juice carton to see how our seeds have grown. The kids have to plot the progress on a chart in their workbooks. Today, we also made mini planters to grown some other radish seeds. And we are…

29/365 I mentioned before that I am teaching a class at our co-op on the Iditarod race across Alaska. Just by chance, there was a demonstration at the arboretum this weekend on dog-sled racing and the Iditarod. We got together with another family that is in the class. Their two boys and our boys are…

25/365 As part of our science curriculum this year, we are growing vegetables. Honestly, I have been dreading this part of our studies since we got the science kit in the mail back in August. I wasn’t looking forward to trying to create a greenhouse for a bunch of radish plants in the middle of…

24/365 We had a very light day of school work today. I have been fighting a nasty cold, and I wasn’t feeling well today. Matthew had a fever nearly all day. We all felt well enough this afternoon to read one of our last chapters of “The Twenty-One Balloons.” We have all really enjoyed this…

18/365 We are looking forward to Friday when our classes resume at our home-school co-op. For the first time, I will be teaching two classes at co-op. One of my classes is called “All in the Rhythm.” I am going to teach lots of hand-clapping rhymes, like Miss Mary Mack, as well as jumping rope….

Today was our first day back at school after our two-week Christmas break. We were studying the moth caterpillar in our science book. Apparently, it makes a tasty treat for many predators. To protect itself, it pulls its head in and inflates part of its body. The skin on this part has eye markings, which…