Good visits and more homeschooling...
Feb. 25th, 2007 03:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mommydamaFirst things first!
Yesterday I met![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
moobabe, her husband, and their daughter! It was really wonderful! I really hope we can get together again. They are a little over two hours from us, so it won't happen often, but I truly enjoyed having them here at our house and the girls really enjoyed playing with their four year old daughter. Thank you, again, for making the drive you guys!!
I cannot believe how much snow we got today! At least six inches out there. And we actually went to church, which ended up being a bit dangerous. Virginia drivers DO NOT know how to drive in snow. It was wonderful, heavy, wet snow. Perfect for snowmen. So we have several in the front yard now. I hope the sprinkling of rain we are now getting doesn't wash it all competely away. I'd like a pretty snow like this to stick around for a few days.
I'm seriously considering starting a homeschool blog, but I'm afraid I'd end up only writing in it and neglect LJ, which I really love. I would really like any suggestions people have for homeschooling message boards or groups, especially with a classical approach. I have so many questions and I just can't seem to get them answered anywhere. I hate the WTM boards because I cannot figure them out. I don't understand how to search and when I do I have to read through pages of stuff to find what I want. Maybe I'm just not understanding how they work but there are no subject divisions and I find them really frustrating and overwhelming. Every other message board I find is totally dead.altarflame, didn't you say something about one on ivillage?
My current dilemma is how to teach my kids to write. Do I teach cursive or manuscript first? They are all currently learing manuscript, from a somewhat HWTs approach. I keep reading articles about cursive first being better and the Spell to Write and Read author really recommends it. There is a cursive first program that fits right into SWR and I'm just wondering if we should go that route. I'm so confused. I finally got my history/literature plan straight and this spelling/reading/grammar/writing thing is just throwing me for a loop. I would really like some opininons on it but no one seems to have one. ARG!
Yesterday I met
moobabe, her husband, and their daughter! It was really wonderful! I really hope we can get together again. They are a little over two hours from us, so it won't happen often, but I truly enjoyed having them here at our house and the girls really enjoyed playing with their four year old daughter. Thank you, again, for making the drive you guys!!I cannot believe how much snow we got today! At least six inches out there. And we actually went to church, which ended up being a bit dangerous. Virginia drivers DO NOT know how to drive in snow. It was wonderful, heavy, wet snow. Perfect for snowmen. So we have several in the front yard now. I hope the sprinkling of rain we are now getting doesn't wash it all competely away. I'd like a pretty snow like this to stick around for a few days.
I'm seriously considering starting a homeschool blog, but I'm afraid I'd end up only writing in it and neglect LJ, which I really love. I would really like any suggestions people have for homeschooling message boards or groups, especially with a classical approach. I have so many questions and I just can't seem to get them answered anywhere. I hate the WTM boards because I cannot figure them out. I don't understand how to search and when I do I have to read through pages of stuff to find what I want. Maybe I'm just not understanding how they work but there are no subject divisions and I find them really frustrating and overwhelming. Every other message board I find is totally dead.
altarflame, didn't you say something about one on ivillage? My current dilemma is how to teach my kids to write. Do I teach cursive or manuscript first? They are all currently learing manuscript, from a somewhat HWTs approach. I keep reading articles about cursive first being better and the Spell to Write and Read author really recommends it. There is a cursive first program that fits right into SWR and I'm just wondering if we should go that route. I'm so confused. I finally got my history/literature plan straight and this spelling/reading/grammar/writing thing is just throwing me for a loop. I would really like some opininons on it but no one seems to have one. ARG!
