by Amy LeForge | Oct 3, 2008 | Home Schooling
Sing the Hokey Pokey to learn left and right. >Spin in circles while practicing your counting to 100 Offer a choice: “Do you want to read on the red couch or the brown couch today?” Act out stories with Papo figures. Draw a picture of the story you just...
by Amy LeForge | Sep 22, 2008 | Home Schooling
I’m writing this at 4:30 in the afternoon, with school just finished about ten minutes ago. The morning went beautifully. We all got up around 8, had some playtime and ate breakfast and started school a bit after 9. The younger boys were done by ten, and the...
by Amy LeForge | Sep 22, 2008 | Home Schooling
Okay, when last I wrote I mentioned that I’d gotten locked into a power struggle with The Manager on Thursday morning. Basically what happened was I started the day explaining to the younger boys that we were going to do our lessons in two blocks. Immediately...
by Amy LeForge | Sep 19, 2008 | Home Schooling
Tomorrow is the last day of the third week of school. Last year at this time, I posted about some battles that I was having with the boys. Some time later, a group of women who disagree with me on some basic parenting philosophies found the post and spent a few days...
by Amy LeForge | Jun 10, 2008 | Home Schooling
Some children have been calling my boys inferior because we homeschool. The first time The Manager and TechnoBoy mentioned it to me I was pretty shocked. I’ve been prepared for adults to give me a hard time about it, but to have children make these comments was...
by Amy LeForge | Apr 21, 2008 | Home Schooling
Hey, I’ve got a happy thought for you, Internets! Today in grammar the older boys were asked to recite a list of prepositions that we’d all memorized a while back. Since none of us had looked at it in weeks, I suggested taking some time to review...
