I am busy planning a Mario Party for Adrianna’s birthday next month. (But don’t mention it to her, since it is a surprise.) Currently working on designing some cupcake wrappers in Photoshop. My plan is to have the cupcakes look like the mushrooms from the game. Another one of my ideas is to have Greg […]
Category: Adrianna
Homeschooling and Personal History
One (of the many) things I love about homeschooling is the opportunity to tie history or world events to our family and personal histories. Or being able to tie them to experiences that I know Adrianna has had. Not only does it make school more real and fun, but it also helps broaden her world […]
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The Sticky Stuff
Listening to Adrianna singing, “Brown paper, white paper. Sticking together with the tape, the tape of love. The sticky stuff.”
Victorian Dress and Mario-Kart
The Usborne Children’s Encylopedia we have for our history (and science) lessons is great and often includes pictures of what people wore during different historical periods. Adrianna loves the big fancy dresses that the women used to wear and so when I found this coloring sheet online to go along a lesson on Victorian times, […]
A New Friend
Adrianna has been talking about Ethan, a classmate from our homeschool co-op, for a couple weeks. Apparently, he is her “best friend” and has told her she is pretty. Now for the past hour, she has been drawing pictures to give him at class next week. Most of them contain the note, “I luv you […]
Motivation
Just finished a productive day of homeschooling. I love it when things go smoothly. The promise of video games later never hurts a certain little girl’s motivation either.
Pretty
Adrianna has been making friends at her homeschool co-op. I love picking her up from her school day there and listening to all her stories of her friends and their fun times and imaginative play at recess. Their latest play at recess they played a version of “house” where most of pretended to be kids, […]
Afternoon at the Mall
Last Thursday, I met with some other Grace University alumni at the Colorado Mills Mall to talk about plans for a Grace chorale concert at Kelvin and Leah’s church. After the meeting, Adrianna, Bree and I went shopping. We ended up spending almost 5 hours at the mall! The two highlights for Adrianna were the […]
Retention
As a new homeschool mom, I sometimes worry if Adrianna is really learning or not. For our History/Social Studies classes, the work consists mainly of books that I read aloud to her. The history book also has great pictures. While I do try to supplement these with things I find online (coloring sheets, interactive learning […]