Author: Jill

We’ve been working on the workbooks. All the live long day. We’ve been working on the workbooks just to pass our grade levels to-day! Seriously. I’m so done with this and I think the kids are too. We only worked on them a bit at the beginning of the year with spelling words and then […]

Plug and chug
…is a favorite expression of a teacher of mine. It’s also a description of how my kids just power through the workbooks. Back then it meant, fairly simply, to plug answers into an equation, and chug along until you get to the answer. That was his way of saying ‘just go do it’ […]

Week 30- This week was about solidifying skills by plugging along in their workbooks. Since the majority of it was similar to the St. Pat’s skills they worked on last week, it was mostly a piece of cake. That’s an idiom for easy. Right? These silly pieces of grammar are very much woven into our […]

This week we focused on all the workbook things we are learning, but through St. Pat’s skills worksheets. It’s a fun way to celebrate the holiday while still keeping to our schedule. We made some treats, saw some wildlife, played in the snow, and celebrated the holiday by putting the baby in fabulous green cloth […]

Fact Families
Monday started off kind of slowly. The toddler and Kindergartner have a cold and I was up with the toddler (3 yo) most of the night. Needless to say after a restless night’s sleep the night before with my husband out of state (and no one napping when they should for some unknown Murphy-ish […]

Our new math adventures are subtraction and division. I haven’t posted about the last 6 weeks of our home school. Apparently doing it was overwhelming, or I was focused on other, good things. I’ll get caught back up to finish the solar system unit. If you’re reading this in order you’ll be confused, but that’s […]

This week was all about early spring weather. There was a lot of outside time and exploring things like the old bean pods from the summer that were still in the garden. Everyone enjoyed the sunshine and did what they could to help get the new tunnel on the play set. Every spare minute was […]

Life is Sweet
The kids went to a dental event on Saturday. We needed some sort of health curriculum and having tagged ‘dental’ as a good plan, it was a perfect fit. The 3, 5, and 8 year olds were all eligible, so they all went with dad, watched a video at a nearby library, did […]