This year marks the first year I am REALLY thinking through {kindergarten} curriculum for Omi. For the past two years we have been working our way through Sonlight Pre-school/Kindergarten. I ended up ditching the teacher’s manual and plodding along through the…
He was actually mad that he was getting his school work done so quickly and that I wasn’t very involved in his learning. He didn’t think it was fair that his brothers had All About Spelling and All About Reading…
The textbooks are rapidly closing and making their way to a dusty shelf, to be ignored until a younger sibling needs them. Children are hovering around me. Following me. Looking forlorn. Wanting more food. And dare I say, proclaiming they…
In every giveaway there should be a winner. Unless you are lazy and fail to pick a winner. Which I did once – a long time ago. Alas, I did pick one. Just now. I will add that I should…
We haven’t gotten the big box yet – the big box filled with our All About Reading Level 3 curriculum. But I really hope there is a monkey in it. Because that would be SUCH. A. HIT. in our house. …
Vacations, of late, seem to involve people that I have had the blessing of first meeting online. The Engineer is beginning to accept this as the norm. However, I think he wishes I had biking friends. No offense to you…
I shyly tell you this. Perhaps it’s the stigma I have always associated with Hooked-On Phonics. It’s so commercial? Colorful? Gimmicky? Mainstream? It’s no secret how I purposefully try and bend the social norm a bit. (I was recently reminded…
Jodi is married to her high school sweetheart. She blogs about fermentation, whole foods, homeschooling, essential oils, home-birthing, and gardening.
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