Life Is Learning, Learning Is Life, Year-round

Dreams and information about our future family homeschool.

Saturday, May 28, 2016

High School

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Wow, now that the 2015-2016 school year is over for all public schools in our area, it is reasonable to say that DS1 is entering high school...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Not Back To School - Again

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FLICT hosted a Not Back to School park day today! I wasn't able to attend, but DH & our boys had a good time. The temperature was ...
Sunday, August 24, 2014

It Is Fall Again

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Here we go again... the start of a new "school year." We've been to one Not-Back-To-School park day, and DS1's co-op cla...
Monday, September 02, 2013

FLICT

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We are now part of yet one more homeschooling group. This is good, though, because FLICT is a very good fit for us. It is the next in a line...
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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Time Flies

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As I was preparing to post about our second "Not Back to School" gathering this fall, I decided to scan my archives and read some ...
Friday, July 05, 2013

It seems that I am experienced.

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I gave a 20 minute talk at my Science Camp reunion today about using Zometool to teach geometry at our homeschool co-op. There have been qui...
Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Transcripts Already?

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I am currently (yes, really, right now) listening to a live webinar from Lee Binz of The HomeScholar about high school transcripts. Since...
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Thursday, May 16, 2013

Time Flies

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I'm considering starting a new blog of our traveling adventures. In the process of getting ready to do that, I became aware of how long ...
Thursday, October 18, 2012

Saving Space And Money On Souvenirs

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As we travel, we often smash pennies as one of our souvenirs. I recently found some great RVing blogs. One is RamonaCreel.com . She has seve...
Thursday, August 23, 2012

Stephanie S. Tolan

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I like this lady's website! She wrote Is it a Cheetah? which I first read on Hoagies' several years ago. I plan to check out Tolan...
Saturday, August 18, 2012

It's That Time Again

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Time to load up on cheap school supplies. Time to start going to "Monday School" ( our co-op ). Time to plan a not-back-to-schoo...
Tuesday, August 14, 2012

The United States Mint: Quarters & Dollars

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We have found almost all of the state quarters, and now we are filling our book of America the Beautiful quarters. I'll take a look at t...

100 Best Children's Chapter Books of All-Time

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We have read a few of these great books already. Several of them are part of Sonlight, and several of them I have purchased with the intent ...
Thursday, July 05, 2012

Physics!

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DS1 really enjoys science, particularly astronomy. While at the library Tuesday, we checked out Discovery Channel's "How the Univer...
Friday, May 04, 2012

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DS2 created this logic puzzle today. Max, Mark, Sam, Sally, and their parents played croquet.  Can you figure out the turn order?  ...
Thursday, January 05, 2012

The TAG Project

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I haven't blogged here in quite a while, but some recent activity on TAGMAX email list prompted me to go to The TAG Project website aga...
Monday, November 07, 2011

10 Days of Blog Hopping

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I ran across this blog post about 10 days to a peaceful home. Not surprisingly, I can't find the original source again. That's what...
Wednesday, June 08, 2011

Boys being boys

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My new favorite blog is Skipping School . A recent guest post titled "Boys Will Be Boys—Even When They’re Unschoolers" caught my a...
Sunday, June 05, 2011

A Sample of Building School

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DS1 is going to get a sample of "Building School" next week! He is participating in Camp Invention at his cousins' elementary...
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Monday, August 16, 2010

When does school start?

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That question is difficult to answer when you don't ever really stop. We have less structure and fewer scheduled outside activities in...
Thursday, August 05, 2010

Caterpillars

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We have some swallowtail caterpillars! I got several a few days ago and thought I starved them, but 2 started moving when I put dill in thei...
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

It's That Time of Year Again

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Back-to-School sales have been going on for a couple of weeks now, and my year-long discount at Sonlight is about to expire, so that must m...
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Wednesday, April 07, 2010

What we've been doing

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A couple recent discussions have led me to want to make a list of what we have been doing for educational activities. Some of the following ...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009

A mom comments on Davidson Young Scholars Program

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I need to get around to filing our paperwork with Davidson. This past September we had both boys go through some testing at the Gifted Devel...
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Friday, November 13, 2009

Great Pains Nature Center field trip

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The Wichita Sonlighters group went to Great Plains Nature Center today. We had a wide age range and about 10 families, so the group was spli...
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009

A positive story

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I found this story, Home schooling the cast of Snoopy the musical : The New Yorker , via a homeschool email list. It's about homeschoole...
Monday, August 03, 2009

Plans for this year

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Today has been a big day for prep work! First I ordered Core 1 and LA 1 from Sonlight late last night, then this morning I went to orient...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Postcard Swap followup

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Since we are just about ready to start a new school year, I thought I'd post a followup to our Sonlight Postcard Exchange. It was mid-sp...
Monday, June 01, 2009

Free Range Kids

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I think I just found a new favorite blogger. This is about Life and Learning, so here's a link to go read -- I think it fits here. My b...
Thursday, April 23, 2009

Roadschooling, day 8

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Day 8 was only on the road when we were returning the RV and running other errands, but we did have a very interesting conversation about la...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Roadschooling - days 6-7

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Day 6 DS 1 learned how to "break camp" this morning. He helped Daddy get things ready to go before we left, and he helped with the...
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