We’ve been doing a lot of brainstorming about how to log Victoria’s high school years now that she’s in 9th grade. There’s so much conflicting information out there about high school, homeschool and transcripts, especially when it comes to eclectic homeschoolers and unschoolers. It’s absolutely important for homeschoolers to reproduce typical transcripts. It’s absolutely unimportant [...]
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The new school year hasn’t started yet, but Victoria has already read two of the books on her 9th grade reading list and she loved them both. Read so far… Farenheit 451 Lord of the Flies Recommended reading for 9th graders is so chipper, isn’t it? She’s also been reading a ton of regular YA [...]
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Victoria and I have been working on the plan for her 9th grade year. We’ve always been very informal homeschoolers but she’s set her sights on Harvard at the moment (she found out that with our income level it would be free for her to attend). Who knows if she will feel the same in [...]
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We’ve finished up our 9th grade suggested reading list for Victoria for next year, with input from various friends online, web sites, my own suggestions and Victoria’s requests. She does not plan to read all of these, just a good portion. We’ll discuss them as she goes and she may write reviews for sites like [...]
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Here’s a fun little graphic that amused me. Things are… well, things are going here. The basic rundown is that Victoria got a cancer diagnosis that has been both optimistic and pessimistic (current state: optimistic?) and has had two surgeries this month, several ER visits and a stay at a Sioux Falls hospital pediatric unit. [...]
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Egads, we’ve been busy! Here’s how last week looked for us… Monday — Jack turned 9, Victoria graduated from archery class. We had a small birthday party, I baked a gluten free chocolate cake and made a special meal, Victoria had horse class and we all watched her archery tournament (she came in second in [...]
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Fiona Rose and I are home and doing well. She’s absolutely beautiful, sweet, charming, funny and wonderful in every way. Here’s the baby announcement that Victoria made (yes, by herself!) with photographs she took of Fiona. I told her what shots I wanted and how I wanted the announcement to look, and she did such [...]
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One of the most common questions homeschoolers hear from outsiders is “How are you going to teach ___”. You can fill in the blank — calculus, chemistry, algebra, physics, whatever. That question always perplexes me. It’s so easy for people (children, grown ups, teens, anybody) to learn things! There’s books, online videos, tutors, classes, web [...]
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I’m not doing much homeschool planning right now because the baby will be coming in early October (October 10th is the official date!) and I’m not naive enough to think I’m going to stick to a rigorous homeschool schedule with an impending birth or new baby. That said, I’m doing up some general goals for [...]
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Posted in Photography, Victoria on Jul 29th, 2011 3 Comments »
I’m raiding Victoria’s Flickr page for some random shots she’s taken lately. You can see she’s learning Latin, having fun with photo apps on my iPod (some of these were done with the Hipstamatic app), doing art and some other fun stuff… I love her style! And here’s a few new rambings I have elsewhere… [...]
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