The Diosa Dotada Endeavor

I often hear or overhear recently inducted homeschooling parents bemoaning the fact that they are falling behind, are behind schedule, or some other variation on the same concept.  Now I suspect that while the unschoolers find this idea utterly riddiculous, there are many more homeschoolers who find themselves feeling this way than I have even come […]

Read the rest of The S-Word

This week we begin our next cycle.  I’ve begun using the word cycle to describe the sections of our homeschooling calendar.  Since we school year round, taking a week or two off here and there, referring to the school year seemed incorrect to me.  So I’m going with cycle to describe how we do things.  […]

Read the rest of I Love It When A Plan Comes Together

As I type, our brand spankin’ new microscope is making its way to our happy home.  It took quite a while to decide on one.  Every step down this homeschooling path is a gigantic leap of learning for yours truly.  I now know much more about microscopes and how they are manufactured and marketed and […]

Read the rest of Decisions, Decisions

For all my rhetoric, there is one reason I have such a fiery passion for homeschooling that I rarely mention in most conversations on the topic.  I usually only share it with other homeschooling parents who express that they too harbor the same sweet secret.  As I continue to construct our 2008-09 biology curriculum from […]

Read the rest of The Secret Reason

Hello, my name is Obsessive Homeschooling Mom.  And I am a Curriculum Junkie.  As we work through the material on hand, I am always on the look out for the next step.  For months I have been reviewing sources for our next steps in science and history.  As we are planning to follow the general scope and sequence […]

Read the rest of DIY Curriculum Mayhem

At home, I am planning now for the end of Kindergarten through spring and summer, as well as, the beginning of First Grade next autumn and winter.  It will be a little while before I start puirchasing any First Grade spines, so for now that planning focuses on general concepts only.  It is also dependent […]

Read the rest of Preparing for 2008- At Home

We have been moving right along here and have been quite busy lately with an assortment of in and out of the house lessons and activities as 2007 winds down rapidly.  I am now actively looking ahead to 2008 and all the glorious potential it holds for us. 
 Our wonderful homeschooling group, Learning Adventures of Fort Bend is […]

Read the rest of Preparing for 2008- Group Activities

A few days ago, I found myself wondering if it was too soon for my thoughts to be drifting into next school year already but a quick post to one of my honeschooling listservs reassured me that it was not a premature impulse.  Plenty of us compulsive planner-type homeschooling moms are already doing just that.  […]

Read the rest of Musings- Where We Are & Where We’re Headed