A Fly On My Homeschool Wall

 We were going to keep our gentle routine this summer.  We really were. And we kind of are. But I'm also saying yes to other activities when I can, and that means our routine is really something that we're only falling back to when there's nothing else happening. I'm grateful for the safety of routine. I'm grateful for the joy of spontaneous outings. Morning Meeting never goes anywhere--no matter what fun is on the schedule. We're almost done with the New Testament portion of our Egermeier Bible Stories .  Likewise, we're almost done with memorizing/reviewing The Living Christ .  It looks like we'll be simultaneously starting a new memorizing project along with another set of New Testament stories. We are still reading at least a few nights a week.  We've made it to the Australian coast in In Search of the Castaways .  One night we spent a long time poring over Google Maps as we found the place names mentioned in the book.  (And to think I worry tha...

Mister Man built a Lego Ent--he's reading The Lord of the Rings trilogy right now--and loving it!  Between the dryer situation (which is resolved as of yesterday afternoon), psych appointments, our dance dress rehearsal, and illnesses, it was hard to feel like we did much "school."  But we did what we could do! Monday I had about 5 activities planned. We did one of them . . . or kind of two of them, depending on how you count. These are our pumpkins. Before we cut into any of them, we made predictions about what we would find.  Some of our predictions were accurate, and some of them were not.  Some of our discoveries were delightful! Not all of the kids tolerated getting their hands slimy and dirty, so I put pumpkin guts in plastic bags, and let the kids squish them. Ladybug took great pleasure in squishing the guts.  She even formed some into a ball and shared the ball with adventurous kids. One of the little pumpkins had huge seeds with gray trim around the ed...