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Five Minute Friday: Cherished Mountain
Over at Lisa Jo Baker’s blog a group of hundreds of writers gather on Fridays for a writing party. We write for 5 minutes about a topic that she gives us. Just free writing… Today’s Topic: CherishedGoI stand near the end of the holler and look up. The mountain stands before me like a looming shadow of darkness. But it has not always been so. That mountain stands as a testament to a history long past but that changed the country as we know it. Now it stands as a symbol. But the symbol means many things to different people. Most of those people don’t know, they don’t understand the…
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Proficiency Achieved: Onward, Homeschool Math
Learning Math through Online Program I don’t always toot the horn over accomplishments. I try to live humbly. But on Tuesday I wanted to shout from the rooftops because my Little Man achieved his Proficiency Badge in Algebraic Order of Operations at Khan Academy. He’s achieved several badges, but this is the one that led us to Khan Academy in the first place. So I am very excited for him. He and I are loving Khan Academy. For me, I love the freedom that I have in watching him learn and grow in his knowledge of math without feeling pressured to be the one to…
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Differentiation, Learning How to Stretch the Mind
Changing Learning to Meet the Need Finding ways to stretch the mind of a child who learns and adapts at such a high rate is a daunting task. For the longest time I felt so alone. I felt like no one could possibly understand what I was going through in trying to meet his needs. After last years homeschool convention though, the world of gifted learning was opened up to me. This post contains affiliate ad links. Finding ways to stretch the mind of a child who learns and adapts at such a high rate is a daunting task. For the longest time I felt so alone. I felt like…
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This Week… Getting Back in Rhythm
This week we focused on school. Little Man worked really well. I think my goal of having lesson plans complete at least one full week in advance has helped to find the rhythm again. I don’t know how it happened, my guess would be busy-ness, but somehow I had been trying to put together lesson plans as we go. It was not working out. Little Man works well when given a task list. So I did. I printed out a little weekly calendar with tasks written out. He can see clearly what the expectations are and work at a pace that he is comfortable with. It puts him in the…
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His Grace is Sufficient for Me
I often turn to scripture as a means to guide me through different parts of my life. Sometimes, without it being a deliberate choice a passage stands out to me and becomes my touchstone for my daily life. It can stand as that guide for a few weeks or a month, or it can last for a year or more. I think one has come up again. In this passages the Apostle Paul is referring to what he called “A thorn in the flesh.” No one knows for sure what physical struggle he meant by that. There are many who speculate, but that is not the purpose of this post.…
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Motivation for the New Year
It’s a new calendar year. But it’s only the middle of the academic one. This is the time of year when I get a renewed energy for homeschooling. That most likely is because I start to feel that we are behind. My friends remind me that “behind” is relative.Personally, I feel that I am behind in the goals I set for the year. I am behind in the number of required hours for the year, at least I feel behind. Since I don’t actually have to submit hours I’m not required to count them. I just keep a basic number of hours each week, and that feels, behind. So every…
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Five Minute Friday: Opportunity Knocking
Hi all. Linking up today with Lisa-Jo for a Five Minute Friday Writing Party. Where hundreds of bloggers are given a topic and then take just five minutes to write about it. The goal is to get back to the basics of writing without worry or fear of all the editing that it takes to publish something.Today’s Topic: Opportunity Go:As the new year has been ushered in, my family gladly said goodbye to 2012. That year brought anxiety and fear. Neither of which are feelings that we desire to have. With Beloved’s job loss and months of not knowing what comes next, we look forward to a year where the…
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This Week… Winter Recital
This was a good week. Little Man spent the week back at it in the books department.Bible: In Bible he learned about the water from the rock and the war with the Amalekites. Both he found to be fascinating, and truth be told… So do I. (Exodus 17) Literature:Finished chapter 6 of “The Golden Goblet.” Ranofer discovers just how much he does NOT want to be a stone cutter, finding it to be monotonous, noisy and the other workers far too busy to be friendly. He also has discovered that Gebu is up to something in the middle of the night, sneaking out of the house when he thinks Ranofer is…
