We were watching a biography about Albert Einestein, again much of the biography focused on this man's many women friends other then his wife. Kelly was disappointed again to see that another extraordinary man we are researching was unfaithful to his wife (if you remember we ran into this topic with Mozart). I am finding it is hard for Kelly once she hears of the infidelities of these men to look past it and see what the person has accomplished : ( Isn't it sad that so few of our admired roll models have such low moral standards to which they lived by?
My husband is also teachingKelly & I the game of golf.... Kelly is great at hitting the shot long while I am better at the short shots. I'm not really interested in it at all, but it something new for Kelly to work on and it does get her out of the house and away from the computer.
I want to send my heart felt sympathy to my dear blogging buddy (Home*School*Home) who just lost her Dad!
Friday, January 29, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Teenage PMS - Oh My!
I really don't know how public school teachers teach a room full of teenage girls who are PMS'ing! I have one and what a handful she is this week!
For starters our computer again got that 2010 virus thing, I had to do systems restore again.... when the computer isn't working right she is a crank pot but add in the PMS and we have a monster on our hands.
We watched a cd about Hitler - this one was alot better, it moved very quickly but it gave us some background to work with. Took a lunch break and then watched a math cd (I knew it wasn't a good idea to do two cd's in one day but I went ahead and did it anyway). The fellow showed us the latice method for multiplication. I had never tried it before and I found it to be useful but Kelly refused to even try it : ( We will work on it tomorrow but not sure if I will have Miss Jekyll or Miss Hyde to work with!
For starters our computer again got that 2010 virus thing, I had to do systems restore again.... when the computer isn't working right she is a crank pot but add in the PMS and we have a monster on our hands.
We watched a cd about Hitler - this one was alot better, it moved very quickly but it gave us some background to work with. Took a lunch break and then watched a math cd (I knew it wasn't a good idea to do two cd's in one day but I went ahead and did it anyway). The fellow showed us the latice method for multiplication. I had never tried it before and I found it to be useful but Kelly refused to even try it : ( We will work on it tomorrow but not sure if I will have Miss Jekyll or Miss Hyde to work with!
Monday, January 25, 2010
Plans Out The Window Already
I was all geared up to start my pre-planned schedule today..... but early this morning we had a nasty thunder storm which woke us all up way to early! We started the morning off cranky and complaning which is not how I was hoping to get the day off to it's start.
My son decide to go have his taxes done, We were going to do it over the internet with the free turbo tax since his tax return is cut and dry but I just felt a bit nervous about it since he sooo needs the money to get his car fixed and I just didn't want to miss any of the possible tax deductions. We went to Jackson Hewitt, they charge him $100.00 to fill out his taxes (luckly I had printed out a $25.00 off coupon, so it cost him $75.00 - Ouch!). He is getting back $790.00, He needs $1,400.00 to fix the car.... and if you remember he is also moving out at the end of Feb.! I don't know how this boy is going to afford it all : (
Anyway, after we got back from Jackson Hewitt the day was already shot! I made a quick lunch of hotdogs and we got to school work, We started off with a netflix cd "Discovering England", Gosh it is georgous over there!!!!! I would love to live there. All the beautiful castles and the buildings are just made with such care. I told my husband our 25th anniversary is coming up on Feb. 23 can we go there???? Only in my dreams. The cd was 2 hrs. long so that was all we got done today : ( I just hate days like this! Tomorrow nothing is planned so we should be able to get more school work done - I hope....
My son decide to go have his taxes done, We were going to do it over the internet with the free turbo tax since his tax return is cut and dry but I just felt a bit nervous about it since he sooo needs the money to get his car fixed and I just didn't want to miss any of the possible tax deductions. We went to Jackson Hewitt, they charge him $100.00 to fill out his taxes (luckly I had printed out a $25.00 off coupon, so it cost him $75.00 - Ouch!). He is getting back $790.00, He needs $1,400.00 to fix the car.... and if you remember he is also moving out at the end of Feb.! I don't know how this boy is going to afford it all : (
Anyway, after we got back from Jackson Hewitt the day was already shot! I made a quick lunch of hotdogs and we got to school work, We started off with a netflix cd "Discovering England", Gosh it is georgous over there!!!!! I would love to live there. All the beautiful castles and the buildings are just made with such care. I told my husband our 25th anniversary is coming up on Feb. 23 can we go there???? Only in my dreams. The cd was 2 hrs. long so that was all we got done today : ( I just hate days like this! Tomorrow nothing is planned so we should be able to get more school work done - I hope....
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Sunday's This And That
Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend! They go by so fast.....
Have you noticed that so many homeschooling blogs are now like watching/reading a commercial? It seems to me so many are reviewing this product or that. I had to go back over my favorites and remove some of them, I love reading about products/curriculum that is working for each family but to constantly be reading about items that they have never used seems just to commercially to me : (
I was reading a blog how this mom prints out the entire year schedule and of course has to tweek it here and there but pretty much has a road map to follow. So I figure we have about 18 more weeks left of school, I printed off our schdule form and was all ready to get organized and then I just sat there looking at the form.... I can't seem to plan that far in advance. I know we are going to finish off the BiblioPlan America and the World: 1850-2000, work through Galloping the Globe (not sure how many countries we will finish), pick and choose some chapters from the Apologia Zoology 1 book (we have covered a large number of the topics in the book already from other sources), Beyond Five In A Row/Above And Beyond Fice In A Row - We are working through as many of the books as we can, Math - I was reading over on one of my fav. how the mom was thinking of making up her own math book which I think I am going to do. As for the other topics spelling/grammar/nature study they all seem to be falling to the wayside. I would really like a road map for us though it might help me keep Kelly moving.... Well I have all day today to think about it and maybe I can get something down on these blank papers : )
Have you noticed that so many homeschooling blogs are now like watching/reading a commercial? It seems to me so many are reviewing this product or that. I had to go back over my favorites and remove some of them, I love reading about products/curriculum that is working for each family but to constantly be reading about items that they have never used seems just to commercially to me : (
I was reading a blog how this mom prints out the entire year schedule and of course has to tweek it here and there but pretty much has a road map to follow. So I figure we have about 18 more weeks left of school, I printed off our schdule form and was all ready to get organized and then I just sat there looking at the form.... I can't seem to plan that far in advance. I know we are going to finish off the BiblioPlan America and the World: 1850-2000, work through Galloping the Globe (not sure how many countries we will finish), pick and choose some chapters from the Apologia Zoology 1 book (we have covered a large number of the topics in the book already from other sources), Beyond Five In A Row/Above And Beyond Fice In A Row - We are working through as many of the books as we can, Math - I was reading over on one of my fav. how the mom was thinking of making up her own math book which I think I am going to do. As for the other topics spelling/grammar/nature study they all seem to be falling to the wayside. I would really like a road map for us though it might help me keep Kelly moving.... Well I have all day today to think about it and maybe I can get something down on these blank papers : )
Friday, January 22, 2010
What videos do you rent from Netflix?
What videos do you rent from Netflix to add to your schooling?
We got our movie today from Netflix, I picked one about Hitler. Gosh I sure did pick the wrong one.... I wanted one about the man and what he did, We got a video about the concentration camps.
We also got one about England, the country we are working on. I thought it would be fun to tour each county by video instead of just by reading about it.
On Monday I have a multiplication/division video coming not sure how well that will go over with Kelly (hates math!).
I really look forward to using Netflix to help give our homeschooling a little something extra.
We got our movie today from Netflix, I picked one about Hitler. Gosh I sure did pick the wrong one.... I wanted one about the man and what he did, We got a video about the concentration camps.
We also got one about England, the country we are working on. I thought it would be fun to tour each county by video instead of just by reading about it.
On Monday I have a multiplication/division video coming not sure how well that will go over with Kelly (hates math!).
I really look forward to using Netflix to help give our homeschooling a little something extra.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Busy Teacher's Cafe
Here is a website that I found: Busy Teacher's Cafe
It has a topic of making your child their own "Mini-Office" with directions and forms all you have to do is supply the folders.
I have been thinking of making one of these for Kelly for awhile now, I would include of course the multiplication grid and a few other things that she has trouble remembering.
The website has alot of other topics that you might enjoy also : )
Have a great day!
It has a topic of making your child their own "Mini-Office" with directions and forms all you have to do is supply the folders.
I have been thinking of making one of these for Kelly for awhile now, I would include of course the multiplication grid and a few other things that she has trouble remembering.
The website has alot of other topics that you might enjoy also : )
Have a great day!
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Feeling Kinda Sad.....
Feeling kinda sad today....
My son and his girlfriend went and filled out an application for that apartment that they want to rent together, they are hoping to be able to move into in March I think. I can't belive how sad this makes me feel, I guess it's like when your child goes off to college and leaves for the first time for a long period of time. It's sad but I would rather them move out together then get married at this time since there has been so many rough patches for them. In my gut I can't see this lasting very long but maybe they will surprize me. I just can't belive how sad I am feeling about the whole moving out thing! I really don't see him very much now but it is so nice to know that he is home at night and safe. The apartment they are looking at is right across the street from the Daytona International Racetrack behind the mall there. It sure will be different from living where we are now.... Is it normal to be so sad about a 20 year old moving out???
On to Kelly and school work, we watched a four vol. video set about the great depression that I got out from the library, We found it to be very interesting. You know that one picture you always see from the depression era of the women with her two daughters tucked up around her neck and the women is looking so sad? Their story is so sad, the women's husband had died, she had seven children to take care of all by herself. The fields where she had hoped to be paid to pick the peas froze and there was no work for her at all. She sold the tires off of her car for food for the children... they had been eating the frozen peas. Can you imagine having to deal with those types of conditions!
We are moving onto Hilter next, I signed up again for Netflix (we couldn't really afford it but I felt like Kelly is doing so much better with watching and learning that I'll give it another go) we have a bio movie picked out about him, we should get in a few days. Other then that we have been moving at a snails pace since the holiday break! I think the biggest problem has been me and not being organized enough for the lessons.
My son and his girlfriend went and filled out an application for that apartment that they want to rent together, they are hoping to be able to move into in March I think. I can't belive how sad this makes me feel, I guess it's like when your child goes off to college and leaves for the first time for a long period of time. It's sad but I would rather them move out together then get married at this time since there has been so many rough patches for them. In my gut I can't see this lasting very long but maybe they will surprize me. I just can't belive how sad I am feeling about the whole moving out thing! I really don't see him very much now but it is so nice to know that he is home at night and safe. The apartment they are looking at is right across the street from the Daytona International Racetrack behind the mall there. It sure will be different from living where we are now.... Is it normal to be so sad about a 20 year old moving out???
On to Kelly and school work, we watched a four vol. video set about the great depression that I got out from the library, We found it to be very interesting. You know that one picture you always see from the depression era of the women with her two daughters tucked up around her neck and the women is looking so sad? Their story is so sad, the women's husband had died, she had seven children to take care of all by herself. The fields where she had hoped to be paid to pick the peas froze and there was no work for her at all. She sold the tires off of her car for food for the children... they had been eating the frozen peas. Can you imagine having to deal with those types of conditions!
We are moving onto Hilter next, I signed up again for Netflix (we couldn't really afford it but I felt like Kelly is doing so much better with watching and learning that I'll give it another go) we have a bio movie picked out about him, we should get in a few days. Other then that we have been moving at a snails pace since the holiday break! I think the biggest problem has been me and not being organized enough for the lessons.
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