Hillary started her first day of Community College, where she will be taking 3 courses as part of our homeschool program this year. Wow- that is a weird feeling. I couldn’t decide if we were throwing her out to the wolves, but their was a sense of excitement about the path she [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Homeschool’
August 27, 2009
First Day of Your new Life!
Why is it, when school starts your whole life comes back together again.? All a sudden I have motivation again, desire to exercise, eat right and cook dinner. I am a new women with just the change of the clock, a new day, and the temperatures dropping (rapidly we went from 90 to [...]
August 4, 2009
Fall Schedule- Set in Stone
Schedules. School. Classes. Everything is about to start! I am almost excited again as we ease into the new year.
I have made a couple of changes this year, that I think are going to be dynamite.
Announcing the 2009-2010 School Year Theme:
Hillary is registered at our local Community College and will be taking 3 classes this [...]
July 23, 2009
Partly Cloudy and 69 Degrees
Our temperatures have been hanging in the very low numbers this summer with a rain shower nearly every other day. I have been pulling out out of my bag of tricks, all of my indoor activities to keep everyone happy, since swimming and sunscreen are not even an option this season. I’m not complaining though, [...]
July 22, 2009
Who Doesn’t Want to Listen to Music on the Charles River While the Sun Goes Down?
Back when we were first married, we used to love to go to Deer Valley Resort in Park City, Utah and listen to the Utah Symphony play. We would pack up the cheese and crackers and the drinks, and head up to the mountain with our lawn chairs and blankets. Those were good times, tucked [...]
July 14, 2009
If I could add more to the last 3 days I would…..
It started like it does every Saturday at the field watching this all-star play…………
We celebrated the big 12th Birthday of this awesome kid-
Chase was ordained a deacon in the priesthood at our church on Sunday by Brian…………Man I love these two guys!
Monday, we finally went to the Robert Frost Farm and learned about the great [...]
July 1, 2009
Nothing is Better than Hands On Learning
Day 2 of my spontaneous trip to Burlington, VT proved equally as fun as Day 1, and the sun continued to shine! My number one thing on the agenda was a stop at the Echo Lake Aquarium and Science Center on Lake Champlain. No doubt about it, hands on science is my favorite type of [...]
June 25, 2009
Personal Progress and More
Last night Hillary received the Young Women’s Medallion for Personal Progress which is part of the youth program of our church.
She had to complete 8- eight hour projects and variety of smaller activities to finish. We are so proud of her for completing this program and know that the long term benefits will be [...]
June 17, 2009
This idea meets my qualification for aTypical in education
Oh little blog I have missed you so much! I generally get up every morning and write for the sake of clearing the mind. I have had so much on my plate, that I have missed a couple of days and I can’t wait to type and clear my head right now.
So we have [...]
June 15, 2009
Artful, Atypical, Advanced, Adventurous
I want to talk about a couple of concepts today that I gained from my reading last week from Maya Frost, that have influenced my educational model and how I may enhance what we are doing here, for next years school system. Below, I have listed the six major points of interest that are of [...]
