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Visit Pioneer Woman’s Homeschooling blog today to catch my post, School Pictures.
Here’s an excerpt:
Anyone see the new Ramona and Beezus movie that hit theaters this summer? I had a good chuckle watching what happened to Ramona on school picture day. Perfectly coiffed in the morning, it took Ramona no time at all to turn her head into a ratty mess – just in time for the photographer to capture it for infinity.
It reminded me of my own school picture days. My “personal presentation” battles were two-fold: first, I have three very intrusive cowlics – two of them flank my forehead and the other is planted dead-center on the back of my head; next, I grew up an hour north of Galveston, Texas, and the morning fog soaked my head while I waited for the bus.
School pictures were NEVER pretty.
Never.
Read the rest…
Visit Pioneer Woman’s Homeschooling blog today to catch my post, Book Review: Letters for Freedom-The American Revolution.
Here’s an excerpt:
I love history. I mean, I really love history. However, when I was in elementary, intermediate and high school, I did NOT like history…not even a little bit.
History = Boring Textbooks
History = Meaningless outlines on the blackboard.
History = Tediously detailed questions that, in my opinion at the time, were not relevant to my life.
So, as you can imagine, I look for ways to make history “come alive” to my kids.
I have not done away with textbooks. There is a place for them, after all, but I don’t depend on them for anything more than fact gathering. Mostly, the textbooks I use serve as my personal “refresher course,” so I can draw out the important facts for verbal discussions as the kids and I read through the MUCH MORE INTERESTING historical fiction. Read the rest…
Visit Pioneer Woman’s Homeschooling blog today to catch my post, The OMSH Schoolroom – An Update.
Here’s an excerpt:
It has been 18 months since we moved into our “new” home. I love my new home; it is a blessing I am thankful for daily.
I also love that we turned the formal dining room into a schoolroom.
We’ve made some changes to the schoolroom since I posted about it last “school” year.
Some of the changes were made out of necessity (sanity being an important element to each school day), some were prompted by practicality, and finally, other changes were aesthetically driven. Read the rest…
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