Homeschooling

  • How I Didn’t Teach Science

    A close friend and fairly new homeschooling mom recently asked, “How do you teach science?” I told her the truth. “I don’t.” There was a time, years ago, when I would have been embarrassed to say that, because I would… Continue reading

  • What Nino Read, October 2014

    Religion The Monk Who Grew Prayer New Catholic Children’s Bible – he reads this on his own Catholic Children’s Treasure Box Books – he now reads these on his own, and asked me for sacrifice beads, though he hasn’t used… Continue reading

  • What Nino Read, September 2014

    Corduroy Makes a Cake It’s Milking Time (didn’t like this one that much — maybe he can’t relate since we hardly ever drink cow’s milk here) Cam Jansen: The Mystery of the Carnival Prize The Best Kind of Kiss by… Continue reading

  • What Nino Read, August 2014

    5 Stars: Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin, Ill. Mary Azarian The Children’s Book of Heroes, Ed. William J. Bennett, Ill. Michael Hague Abraham Lincoln: The Great Emancipator by Augusta Stevenson, Ill. Jerry Robinson St. Francis by Brian Wildsmith The… Continue reading

  • Nino’s First Grade (After-the-Fact) Curriculum, 2014-2015

    (the STARS ***** = Nino’s rating) August 2014 Fix-It Duck by Jez Alborough ***** I loved it because it was funny and he didn’t fix anything. Mr. Popper’s Penguins * audio book read by Nick Sullivan I didn’t like it… Continue reading

  • Nino’s Kindergarten Curriculum, 2013-2014

    WHAT WE DID AS OPPOSED TO WHAT WE’RE GOING TO DO At the beginning of the year, I thought of putting together a Kindergarten curriculum for Nino (4 1/2)…. I had bought a really neat book using 26 letters, but… Continue reading

  • How I Didn’t Teach Science 😀

    A close friend and fairly new homeschooling mom recently asked, “How do you teach science?” I told her the truth. “I don’t.” Read the rest here. Continue reading

  • Help! We’re having a baby! How do I homeschool the toddler/older child(ren)?

    Candice, dito ko na ia-address ‘yung concerns mo ha, so it can hopefully bless others as well. I was working on a blog post but it got too convoluted. I figured having a specific audience will help me get my… Continue reading

  • Book Organization: Our Shelves

    I promised some people a while back that I’d do a post on how we organize our books. The truth is it’s a bit hard to do this since our shelves are constantly in flux, but this should give a… Continue reading

  • Nino’s Reading List, 2013-2014

    Will be updating this regularly. Nino is 4 1/2. (no idea why this post is coming up empty. sigh. will fix later.) Continue reading