I don’t know how many of you may have read Pinocchio, I just know that my familiarity with the story came from the Disney movie. I was slightly reacquainted with characters while watching the end of the first season of Once Upon A Time (the tv show). I know I had never read the story […]
Author Archives: Laura
Continuing On…
I see it’s been about a week since I last posted. I was trying to be more faithful than that with posts, but apparently I still need to work on that some. (Nothing new, I have been known to be a GREAT procrastinator.) I haven’t completely ignored the blog, and we have been doing our […]
Keeping Track
One if my biggest concerns this year so far, has been how to keep track of the what, when, why and how of her classes. I started this year by adding her classes after the fact to a Google calendar. The downfalls of this solution was that I would have to remember to actually find […]
Natural Science
We are currently using Burgess Bird Book for Children for one of her school books. The book has a wonderfully informative story format that is easy to read to my daughter. They keep her attention well, so having her narrate from it is fairly easy. I was noticing though that she was doing more about the interaction […]
Life of Fred
Several months ago I started looking for something to use to teach my daughter math. I wasn’t sure what to use, and most of the options I was seeing were expensive. Since I only have one child, it’s not as if I could justify a very expensive math program by saying well I can reuse […]
Our 1st Grade Curriculum
My daughter is currently six. I’ve decided to use first grade curriculum with her instead of kindergarten. Mainly because her reading level is at the equivalent of fourth grade or more, and from what I can tell her math skills are at least first grade level. Last year was very informal for us, she was […]
We are Homeschooling
As shown by the title of this blog, I’m homeschooling my daughter. Why? Well there is a whole list of reasons, one is bullying. I believe that bullying is far too prevalent in schools; I know it certainly was when I was in school and from everything I’ve hard it’s only become a bigger issue. […]