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I Got Sick

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And that's why I missed a week of posting about our homeschool. I was so sick. So. Sick. But now I'm okay, and my family helped me every day, and we didn't do much school, but we did what we could, and it's okay. (So I keep telling myself every time I want to panic about how hard it is [again!] to get really going with a productive school year.} It's okay. No one died. No one abandoned the family. We didn't give up. We just had to take time off . . . during our third week. Habits we kept up because my husband and teen daughters are amazing:    Morning Meeting    Math    Cursive/Copywork    Individual Subjects    Seminary--Yes!  That started this week! Before I realized how sick I was and how awful I would eventually feel, we engaged in a little bit of what I like to call "documentary school."  This means I found a documentary online that goes with one of our areas of study, and we watched it. 1.  We watched the National Ge...
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2025-26: The First Week

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  For our first day, we had a field trip to the Nelson-Atkins art museum.   Our history/literature focus this year is the Eastern Hemisphere, so we spent a couple of hours in the Asian wing of the museum. Granted, the Eastern Hemisphere is comprised of more than Asia, but that's what we had access to on this day! We picnicked on the museum lawn, and then headed home so that Little Princess could be available for a Zoom meeting for CAP as well as her second-to-last Chinese class. I put the kids to work writing a paragraph about the experience. Lola wrote:  "Everything was boring because I am not the kind of person that enjoys this." Once I got her to add a sentence about where the art was from, I accepted her work. She's something else! 🤣🤷🙄🤣 For the rest of the week, we stayed home, practicing our schedule and starting just a few subjects.   High Schoolers: *Received their planners and some time management instruction *Started literature with Otto of the Silv...
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Last Week of Summer Break

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It wasn't the week I planned, but we're still going forward with school on Monday. Why? Because there isn't a better/easier/more calm time for school to start, so we might as well work our way into the routine. I trimmed 5 inches off Nature Angel's hair--this picture is before the trim. In the background, you can see the stack of homemade pretzels that Little Princess made for us all. I worked on choreography for American Rhythm for a lot of the day. This picture is one I took to show Baymax what I wanted the camera to look like when he filmed my feet so that I could see how the dance I was working on looked like. It was one of those weird cool days in August, and our kids spent the afternoon at the neighbors' house.  Gotta love Catholic and Mormon families hanging out together!   Apparently we had enough kids with just our two families for two actual teams for each of the various games they played. :) 3 hours of active play with friends made both mamas so happy! Th...
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