I’ve been working like a maniac the past week or so trying to plan out every last detail of school after the baby is due. I’ve scheduled in a three-week break, but hoping to get back on the horse again thereafter and get some real work done before Christmas. And it’s so much easier if you have a plan. No…
S asked me to put together a list of what curriculum we’ve found useful, and—overwhelmed at the magnitude of that task, it finally occurred to me that probably the simplest way to do so is just to explain what we’re actually doing, and a couple sentences about why. One caveat, this is more like “this very month,” because different kids…
Last week marked the end of the girls’ adventure in their current math books, which means by my lights, they’re onto the new grade. I use math as our metric because 1) it’s the subject we are most behind in; 2) it’s very sequential, you can’t really skip around or ahead if you’re not getting it; and 3) whether it’s…