Click here to find Part 1, and Part 2. While I am eating up all the constructive comments happening over at this post (if you have thoughts to add, please don’t be shy!), I thought I’d switch gears tonight and tidy up a few final thoughts on school schedules. You’ve seen how our schedules appear on paper, and you’ve heard how […]
How We Do: School Schedules, part 2 (Ambleside Online)
Last Sunday I showed you our weekly school schedules; today I’d like to give you some follow up pictures as well as an explanation of how these schedules work for us. If you look below, you will notice that I divide each child’s schedule into five categories, the headings begin rather self-explanatory. Daily Alone: The majority of these […]
How We Do: Weekly School Schedules with Ambleside Online (part 1)
I am frequently asked about how we schedule our homeschool week, how we organize to make sure we get all the things done. I’m going to take the next few posts to break this down, beginning today with examples of our weekly paper schedules. In our house we call these schedules: “charts.” I apologize for the poor […]
School: How We’re Doing It
I wrote this post months ago as a follow up to this homeschool update. While this is no longer a true representation of our day, I want to publish it just to have on record. I am so, so, so thankful that the intense season of life referenced below has come to an end… As I mentioned in a […]
Homeschool: An Update
The past few years the kids and I have followed Ambleside Online’s scheduled homeschool curriculum, with great enjoyment and success. So when we came into this deployment year I weighed a few schooling options, and ultimately decided to stick with Ambleside despite its heavy reading load. After all, we knew the rhythm, we liked the […]
Homeschooling: What, Who, Where, When
I have been wanting to knock out a few homeschooling posts for quite some time now, and the tail-end of this ridiculously non-ideal homeschool day seems like the perfect moment to begin. Because I’m rather exhausted, though, I’ll go easy on myself and just give you the quick What, Who, Where and When, saving the meaty […]