(And preschool, too.)
Despite the fact that I think grade levels (as well as grades given to mark progress) are silly – at least at these young ages – since we utilize a public charter school, it sort of goes with the territory. I’m OK with it because the benefits outweigh these little negatives.
Anyway, that [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Welcome to Second Grade
Posted in general updates on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thursday – Art Class
Posted in art class, photos on August 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Claire did a fantastic project which involved mixing colors (for the sea and sunset sky), texturizing paints (waves) and working with perspective (forming cut-out shapes of different sizes into boats). You can see an example in Margie’s finished painting below.
The Rest of This Week
Posted in Camp Fire, Catching Up, Dentist Appointment, field trip, homeschool group, photos on August 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tuesday the kids had a dental appointment which resulted in an additional dental appointment for Margie the next day. She needed three teeny fillings. During the process, I learned that their dentist never uses amalgam for fillings. I was stoked. They have also never blinked when I refuse fluoride so I [...]
A Hawk, A Bunny And The Man Who Lost His Keys
Posted in Uncategorized on August 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday morning I walked out to the car for a moment and heard a loud yelp on the roof, looked up and saw two grows and a hawk having a disagreement. After they flew off, I grabbed our Birds of San Diego book to determine which hawk it was and I think it was [...]
Gray Hairstreak
Posted in Science, spontaneous learning on August 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday Elliott spotted a butterfly so we sat and watched it for quite awhile. It was a light grayish color with some almost bluish color inside the wings. It had orange dots at the bottom of it’s wings and what looked like antennae below the dots. It’s body was quite white and [...]
Thursday – Art Class
Posted in art class, photos on August 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s been awhile since we had art, but it felt really good to be back today. The kids listened to a really neat story that Claire read (and I took photos and did not upload them all, but seriously, Claire has the MOST awesome facial expressions – can we say animated? LOL). [...]
Dance Video
Posted in classes, dance, video on August 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I think the girls were not expecting to do it twice in a row (frankly, it was all terribly disorganized) so please excuse the confusion halfway through. How awesome is my girl?
Dance Performance
Posted in classes, dance, photos on August 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Margie has been taking jazz lessons at the Rec Center for a few weeks now and they had a performance yesterday at our town’s Lemon Festival. She was so excited – a feeling I cannot relate to so much about being onstage. But she loved every second of it. She did pretty well for only [...]
Friday – Camp Fire Again
Posted in Camp Fire, Science, field trip, photos on August 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Today we took a short hike at Torrey Pines, which was representative of our mountain region. It’s an amazing park on the cliffs overlooking the sea. And we were blessed to have an amazing day full of the brightest colors I’d seen in awhile (so often San Diego is drowned in ugly brown smog). The [...]
Recently…
Posted in Catching Up, Science, holidays, photos on August 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We haven’t been doing much recently as I reformulate and prepare for the school year – more on that later.
Over the weekend we met with our friends to celebrate Lammas, or Lughnasadh (which is pronounced “Gesundheit”. Just kidding). This holiday is the first of the harvest holidays so we celebrated with lots of [...]
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She is seven and full of spirit. She reads voraciously, knows her math, and is in speech therapy to help her words come out clearly. We use a charter homeschooling program which provides us with many opportunities in the way of classes and supplies. Elliott
My four-year-old had a pretty significant language delay and has been in programs since he was 18 months old to keep an eye on it. He's gaining in leaps and bounds, but we keep our eyes on him, even though he is not currently in speech. He knows all the letters and sounds and is beginning to read. He knows all his numbers up to 20 or so and all his colors and shapes - including octagon! He loves puzzles, books and his train set. They Might be Giants is his favorite band.Archives
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