This was our youngest dd’s written narration on honeybees as we continued our study of social insects earlier today. The queen bee’s behavior had a particular impact upon her: ‘Bees take honey from smaller hives. If the babies are fed royal food [a special diet for the queen’s growth] more than three days [the queen bee] kills them. […]
Current Events:1st Crack
In my last post, I shared my youngest’s desire to add current events to her course work, and, to a larger extent, to emulate her brother and sister. She’s completed her current events for 2 weeks now, and her results are well worth capturing. Here is a sample of her summary. “Stitches of Hope” […]
Imitation, the Sincerest Form of Flattery
Well over a year ago now, I’d taken a survey of our kids’ feelings on what was then our homeschool environment. I also posted my follow-up plan, in which I talked about how elementary school-unfriendly our school was at that time. Given the needs of the oldest, I’d made a very conscious decision to focus […]
Thankful
Plan A was to write this post on last week before we began our fall semester, but the days have been busy, friends. With what looked like an open window of time and opportunity, I decided to take advantage of an offer to complete a certification for work over the next four weeks. I’ve also […]
Quality, not Quantity, in Reading
‘And now it was that, being on some occasion made asham’d of my ignorance in figures, which I had twice failed in learning when at school, I took Cocker’s book of Arithmetick, and went through the whole by myself with great ease. I also read Seller’s and Shermy’s books of Navigation, and became acquainted with […]