Fall Highlights, 2011

Friday, November 11, 2011

More than another month has sped by! I am still playing catch-up and wonder if I will ever feel as though I am on top of what is happening in school. I am constantly struggling with the “are we doing enough” question; between our being a slow-moving family in the morning, plus building in our music practicing first thing after breakfast, we aren’t starting academic work until close to 9:30-10 a.m. most days! I marvel at those homeschooling families that are done by noon. This will likely never be our experience! “Anakin” (4th grade) will usually do a total of 3.5 hours of work, plus about an hour of reading time (combination of books related to our curent subjects and…

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Another Benefit of Homeschooling…Flexibility!

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

So just to cement the idea that my family is golf-crazy…I just needed to post some photos from our special outing today to the BMW Championship which is being held at a golf course in the Chicagoland area this week. As I mentioned last post, this week is a “light week”, so it was no problem for us to take off in the middle of the week to do something like this! (I love the flexibility of homeschooling!) Today was the last practice round of the tournament, and I thought our chance of seeing Tiger Woods would be higher if we went in the morning as he typically plays his practice rounds early versus late. I wasn’t sure I could…

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