A Fly On My Homeschool Wall

The time change has knocked our socks off, but at least a bit of warmer weather and occasional sunshine are lightening our hearts. :) That's Nature Angel studying in the tree. We hit the park for Family Night on Sunday evening as we faced the first day's challenge of adjusted clocks, non-adjusted sleep schedules, and daylight past bedtime. The kids organized themselves into a hilarious game of hide-and-seek with almost no places to hide.  The same places were used again and again as the kids learned how to disappear in plain sight.  The teens all complained of sore muscles the next morning from contorting and holding themselves in strange positions under, above, and around playground equipment. It was a joyful Family Night.  The week was chock full of activities and events that interrupted our usual school schedule. First on the list was Ladybug's psych intake.  The intake was awesome!  The psychiatrist is NOT going to make us wait 6 or 8 mon...

I've not journaled this week at all. Instead I've been applying for a work-at-home job as a teacher of English to children in Beijing.  I'm not sure it is a good idea. But I'm not sure it is not a good idea either. Sir Walter Scott and I have been discussing it, and I've been praying with fierce sincerity to know if this is wisdom in the Lord. Or not. I've passed all of the interviews and tests.  I've uploaded my legal documents.  All that is left wanting is for me to sign the contract. I can't quite do it yet.  But we are having the nicest Advent season we've ever had. Lola pretending to be Little Princess's shoulder angel . :) I've pulled ideas from here and there around the internet, and I'm using Pam Barnhill's Advent Morning Time Plans as the base schedule from which we are personalizing the activities to suit our family. I'm head over heels in love with the Jesus Storybook Bible .  I have cried whi...

We are Shakespeare fans at our house.  The stories are compelling, the characters are complex, the language is to die for.  Plus, I have enough high school students at home to pass out roles and have a reader's theater whenever we study Shakespeare! However, we've found that we get much more out of our Shakespeare studies when we have help.  Enter the MacBeth E-Guide by Progeny Press ! This high-school level study guide is divided naturally into pre-reading information and activities, one section each for the 5 acts of the play, an overview section, and a final writing assignment section.  There is also a page of Additional Resources that lists other plays by Shakespeare, some books about Shakespeare, and some videos (after all, a play is meant to be seen). Studies for each act includes vocabulary, a quotation to unscramble and identify, "General" questions (basic comprehension of facts and events), "Analysis" questions, "Dig Deeper" ...