tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85448852011-04-21T14:47:48.817-07:00<img src="http://www.mypages.iparenting.com/webs/notme/study.gif" alt="lady"><br><br>A home schooling family of seven records their school year.<p>Our family features five kids, plus mom and dad. Two of the children are preschoolers, while the other three kids are school age. One is in her second year of high school, and the other two are grade school boys, one with autism and one with PDD-NOS and ADHD.<p>Every day an adventure!Khyraenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06841552614189655166noreply@blogger.comBlogger171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544885.post-18137110452539311502007-01-04T15:35:00.000-08:002007-01-04T16:00:16.568-08:00

The reality is, I do not have time for everything I want to do. (Is there anyone who does.) I need to learn to manage my time better, but that will not solve all my problems. I simply have too many interests to pursue all of them. I will try, however, to catch up on my computer and internet business, which has been completely ignored since my father's heart attack on August 29th, 2006. My

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Well, at the rate we are going, I'm never going to get school done and we are going to burn out.Last week, I had to take school on the road because the pipes burst here and all our water was turned off. (That meant, no toilets all day.) It actually took them 3 days to fix the pipes, though the water came back on at night and the last day we were only shy hot water so we stayed home.Taking school

Khyraenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06841552614189655166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544885.post-1130481247648310992005-10-27T23:10:00.000-07:002005-10-27T23:41:26.560-07:00

Can you tell from the last post that we went to the library this week?I think librarians must be the non-home-school people who are most exposed to home-schoolers. I mean, our kids usually like to read a lot, or else we make them read a lot, or else we find something to read they love so that they will read a lot more, or a lot better, or something of the sort. Reading--that's basically my

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"Home-schoolers don't need P.E. They get their P.E. coming out of the library with those book bags full of books." --Ashley, 14 year old home-schooler and life long book lover (who read the Bible on her own at 5 and a dictionary for fun at 7)

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Had a pretty good day at school today. We found, and therefore were able to use, the toddlers devotional book and a reader Josh had been missing from last year that goes with a whole K reading program. We also got a new high school history text for my teen yesterday and, though we didn't use it today, I was able to look it over last night to try and see how it fits with the rest of our materials

Khyraenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06841552614189655166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544885.post-1129078146448862302005-10-11T17:32:00.000-07:002005-10-11T17:51:42.670-07:00

I am not at all creative, and naming my school was a chore, not to be looked forward to in any way. I tried and tried to come up with something that reflected our family or our school or what we liked or something.We live on a "Sutter" so that was considered and then thrown out. Our last name is a fairly common Irish one, but no one speaks Irish (or English, or something) anymore, because

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Our printer is possessed. It won't work right for us, no matter what we try. We've been at it the better half of a day and it feels much like a day wasted. The yellow ink is a no show and it is NOT empty.If the printer does not get its act together soon, I'm quitting. In a few days, when DH gets paid, we'll go down to the store and buy whole new ink cartridges. If that doesn't work, in another

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Today was even better than yesterday. Last night, I managed to get to bed in plenty of time, even after allowing myself time to do some more of my self-educational reading. Whoo hooo! How good it feels to get enough sleep.I woke with the babies and we were done with math before lunch. Now, math is our heaviest subject, followed by history, with Language integrated into everything we do (and

Khyraenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06841552614189655166noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544885.post-1128494001361179792005-10-04T23:33:00.000-07:002005-10-04T23:40:13.413-07:00

Today, we had a better day. I needed my sleep because of an emergency (see my other blog.) When I woke up, the kids were again watching educational TV. I was happy to discover that Jonnie, at ten, was also learning something from the show. Something that interested him, nonetheless. We had lunch, put the toddlers down for their naps, and then started school.The kids did so much better with

Khyraenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06841552614189655166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544885.post-1128399611884060372005-10-03T21:19:00.000-07:002005-10-03T21:20:11.886-07:00

We got a late start in school today. There were some issues with some neighbor's in our apartment complex--the kind of neighbors who's eyes are blood-shot from drinking or smoking (or worse) something--and I was nervous to go to bed so soon afterwards. Then the kid above us was playing his TV too loud. They're not bad people, right above us, and I didn't want to go up there because I was in my

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How do you recharge after a week of home schooling, alone and without your DH?Have something good to do to fill the time that you would normally spend w/ DH so that you are just as recharged as you can be w/o him here, of course.Today was my oldest's birthday, so that gave me an excuse to invite some people to come eat out with us. I invited my mom and my SIL and my nephew and my SIL's nephew and

Khyraenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06841552614189655166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544885.post-1128054379031111422005-09-29T21:03:00.000-07:002005-10-03T21:22:11.506-07:00

My three year old wakes up and comes out to me, whining a little and wanting to nurse. I start to adjust myself so he can nurse when I hear his two year old sister stirring and starting to cry. He woke her while getting out of bed and now they will both want to nurse. I get the pillows ready, but when I sit up to do so, I notice my ten year old son is sitting in the over-stuffed chair, awake.I am

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Tomorrow marks the first day of my adventure home schooling my children with my DH away for an unknown amount of time. Military wives do this all the time; it is their life. I've never done it before and I have no idea what to expect, of myself or of the children.DH is going away to work in Louisiana to help victims of hurricane Katrina; I'm staying behind to take care of the kids and our lives.

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I had to sleep in today. I had vertigo so bad my whole world would start spinning as soon as I sat up. Not getting enough sleep makes vertigo worse, and I haven't been sleeping well on account of DH leaving soon for so very long.When I did get out of bed--and I'll admit, it was lunch time--I declined to take my vertigo medicine and I'm glad I did. The medicine makes me so sleepy that I really

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My daughter's math is so very hard, I cannot believe it. Half the time I'm hitting my head against a wall trying to figure out how it should be done.You see, my daughter has had trouble in math since it got more difficult than 34 + 6. She started to fall further and further behind. I finally figured out that she has the equivalent of dyslexia for writing. I tried to have her charter school test

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Today I walked to the store with DH. We decided to walk because I am having vertigo and it helps in the long run to make it go away for good. We used to walk every night, and when we did, I never got vertigo. Otherwise, it goes with fibromyalgia.While we were at the store, I decided to pick up a few school supplies. I picked up a pack of chalk for Josh's "Handwriting w/o Tears" program. I saw a

Khyraenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06841552614189655166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544885.post-1126250266141222742005-09-09T00:08:00.000-07:002005-10-03T21:23:36.443-07:00

Later on today (as it is past midnight) will be the last day of the third week of school. I'm supposed to keep track of what we have done since I home school, just in case it becomes an issue. I've decided to do this several ways:save samples of paperwork such as math tests, from time to timesave workbooks when they are finished, but only for the current school yeartake pictures of the kids

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