‘08-’09 school’s almost over

We have just about a month of school left to do. Originally I had planned to be finished by now but with our unexpected long vacation, we got a bit behind. This post started as a comment on another blog, but I thought everyone may be interested in a wrap up of the year. I’ll [...]

Homeschool progress reports

Progress reports are due to the district today for our homeschool. Rather than just listing each subject and having an arbitrary letter grade, Chugach progress reports list each individual target for the levels your child is in of each subject. The targets that have been previously met are already marked off. I go through and [...]

Get thee to South America

A few of you already know this. We are going on another cruise.
Holland America offers cruises to South America. We’ve been dreaming about it for several years now. However, it is expensive, especially for 4 of us. Well, recently they sent my husband an e-mail about “Vacation Stimulus”. It worked! We’re going! This will [...]

New science stuff is here!

The Real Science 4 Kids arrived today. Richard and Karen were very excited. So was my husband. He has a degree in biology and grabbed the biology text to preview with Richard. We got level pre-1 chemistry and biology along with the lab workbooks and teacher guides. What a hit! We all agree it is [...]

School’s almost halfway over

Yikes! How did we get so much done in so few months? It’s amazing the amount of material we’ve covered so far this year. We started in mid-August and haven’t taken any of those one- or two-day holidays like the public and many private schools do. As a result, we’re almost halfway through the school [...]

New friends, PE day

Last night we went and visited a family for the first time. It was another family that uses Christian Light Education. I was given their phone number while in Virginia for training. For several reasons we haven’t been able to get together until last night for dinner at their house. They only live about 5 [...]

His first mile

One of the reasons I like homeschooling, is being able to explore Alaska whenever we want. Part of this includes winter trips. My son got his first skis for Christmas last year but only went around the driveway and near the house last winter. Yesterday evening I took him skiing at the Dog Musher Hall [...]

Switching science programs

Science curriculum problem solved.
I’m not very happy with the WinterPromise World Around Me. There’s nothing wrong with it. He just needs more details. It would have been good for him last year or kindergarten. Plus, its only a single year. I’d need another program next year anyway. I can use it in a few years [...]

Starting art

Today we started art. We skipped the first lesson. It was a review of coloring in the lines. He’s good at that already and the picture wasn’t interesting for him. Today’s lesson was 302: shading. He really enjoyed this lesson and discussion. It talks about how to find the light source relating to the subject [...]

Junior dog mushing

The Alaska Dog Mushers Association annual International Sled Dog Symposium is this weekend. This afternoon was the freight pull exhibition. It started at noon. I was planning to go then but the fire was being stubborn lighting this morning so it was after 1 when we got there. The kids had a good time watching [...]