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Friday, January 26, 2007
The Sun Herald | 01/26/2007 | Pascagoula library re-opening
The Sun Herald | 01/26/2007 | Pascagoula library re-opening: "The Jackson-George Regional Library is slated to re-open at 9 a.m. Monday, nearly a year and a half after Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters saturated the two-story building, destroying furniture and books and damaging the building itself."
Sunday, January 21, 2007
A Day in Pompeii
A Day in Pompeii :: About the Exhibit: "A Day in Pompeii takes visitors back in time to experience life and death in this cosmopolitan city. The exhibition features over 250 exceptional objects that lay buried in Pompeii’s ruins for over 17 centuries. Included are room-size frescoes, marble and bronze sculptures, jewelry, gold coins and everyday household items – all of which evoke the richness and culture of daily life in the Roman Empire’s favorite vacation resort."
Long-awaited and now on our homeschool schedule for February 2nd....
Long-awaited and now on our homeschool schedule for February 2nd....
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Wow! What a difference a break (and a kitchen) makes!
I know it's only Wednesday - but I feel it's safe to go ahead and brag right now: What a great week we're having!!
For the first time since we started homeschool, I feel like we finally have a handle on how it feels to homeschool. We've gone through different curriculums and schedules... We've tried writing.. we've tried typing.. we've tried oral discussion... We've tried it all... But this time around it seems the fear has left us and we're just enjoying our days together.
Monday we woke up early for jelly toast and hot chocolate then went over our catechism while we ate. After that we had a traditional math lesson and the boys followed up with some corresponding Time4Learning lessons while I straightened up and played with Yvonne and Emily. We then had a totally interesting history lesson -- the boys loved the history lessons we did last summer and had begged for me to bring them back -- complete with notebook activities. We took a lunch break before the boys returned to Time4Learning for their language arts lessons (and congratulations to both boys for mastering the material!) and then we did a little internet research together while the babies napped. George and I worked together in the afternoon on his first research paper... and that activity later faded into George simply browsing through the encyclopedia reading whatever interested him. William played with Yvonne in the meantime... and by dinner everyone was happy. How great is that?
As I type this - George is logged into Time4Learning working on math. William is in the kitchen with Yvonne teaching her how to write numbers. We've finished language arts for the day and now we're taking it easy waiting for a History Channel program about pirates at noon.
Arrr!
For the first time since we started homeschool, I feel like we finally have a handle on how it feels to homeschool. We've gone through different curriculums and schedules... We've tried writing.. we've tried typing.. we've tried oral discussion... We've tried it all... But this time around it seems the fear has left us and we're just enjoying our days together.
Monday we woke up early for jelly toast and hot chocolate then went over our catechism while we ate. After that we had a traditional math lesson and the boys followed up with some corresponding Time4Learning lessons while I straightened up and played with Yvonne and Emily. We then had a totally interesting history lesson -- the boys loved the history lessons we did last summer and had begged for me to bring them back -- complete with notebook activities. We took a lunch break before the boys returned to Time4Learning for their language arts lessons (and congratulations to both boys for mastering the material!) and then we did a little internet research together while the babies napped. George and I worked together in the afternoon on his first research paper... and that activity later faded into George simply browsing through the encyclopedia reading whatever interested him. William played with Yvonne in the meantime... and by dinner everyone was happy. How great is that?
As I type this - George is logged into Time4Learning working on math. William is in the kitchen with Yvonne teaching her how to write numbers. We've finished language arts for the day and now we're taking it easy waiting for a History Channel program about pirates at noon.
Arrr!
Saturday, January 06, 2007
Christmas break
The boys sitting with their basketball coach waiting to get into the game.Today is the Feast of the Epiphany - the end of the Christmas season... and time to start getting ready for school to start again on Monday. With all the Christmas hubbub and home repairs and so on, I hate to admit that I haven't actually worked on a lesson plan in a couple of weeks and I'm starting to feel a little pressure.
We're starting the New Year off with a stronger mix of bookwork and Time4Learning. I am planning to start this 'semester' just as I did last June. And that is with a more intense and rigid school schedule for a few weeks. After that we will start to slowly taper off until the boys have yet again found a particular area of interest to pursue at their own pace.
Of course... that's going to require actually getting all of our materials together that have been packed away while we were rennovating the kitchen... and it will mean buying a replacement computer monitor for the one that passed away just before Christmas... But it can be done.
I'm also adding Yvonne to the schedule starting next week. She very much wants to join her brothers in school in a more serious way... and I think it will be lots of fun for her.
In the meantime - the boys have been spending some of their Christmas break with basketball practice. They also played in their very first game today -- and we're very, very proud of them. They had a lot of fun and played their hearts out. Go, boys!!
Now it's time to go sharpen some pencils and dust off the printer.
We're starting the New Year off with a stronger mix of bookwork and Time4Learning. I am planning to start this 'semester' just as I did last June. And that is with a more intense and rigid school schedule for a few weeks. After that we will start to slowly taper off until the boys have yet again found a particular area of interest to pursue at their own pace.
Of course... that's going to require actually getting all of our materials together that have been packed away while we were rennovating the kitchen... and it will mean buying a replacement computer monitor for the one that passed away just before Christmas... But it can be done.
I'm also adding Yvonne to the schedule starting next week. She very much wants to join her brothers in school in a more serious way... and I think it will be lots of fun for her.
In the meantime - the boys have been spending some of their Christmas break with basketball practice. They also played in their very first game today -- and we're very, very proud of them. They had a lot of fun and played their hearts out. Go, boys!!
Now it's time to go sharpen some pencils and dust off the printer.
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