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Date Posted: 20:02:31 06/23/02 Sun
Author: Tracey
Subject: Re: Almost ready to begin school ... Yippee!
In reply to: Kris in TN 's message, "Almost ready to begin school ... Yippee!" on 17:22:42 06/23/02 Sun

Kris,
That sounds so nice. I have been cleaning out and really cleaning this past week because we want to get started also, but I want a piece of mind. I purchased a new math program because my oldest does not enjoy math and veiwed it today and he can't wait to start! Hands on really makes a difference for my boys. I have vol. 1 of Patchwork, but we did read alot of Amer. hist. last year and Jeremy has been reading books on his own from the library on Inventors and he has been asking for a microscope, so I am wondering if this should be the way to go first. I could always save Vol. 1 for later, but then he will be 10 but my other boys are younger. Any ideas on how to make it more challenging for older children would be appreciated. I am trying to sell things we are not using so we can purchase a nice microscope and vol. 2. I am looking at Sonlight's microscope and accessiories. Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks Tracey



>Well, I'm about ready for us to begin our new school
>year on July 8th. I've purchased the supplies I'll
>need for doing our Patchwork Primers lapbooks using
>ideas from Dinah Zike's books. My dh and I have
>rearranged some bookshelves in our home so that I have
>the 2 biggest shelves in our living room where we do
>our read-alouds. I wanted to have ALL of my Am. Hist.
>books at my fingertips plus more space for my kids'
>favorite books and games. I know that by having the
>games available, I'll be more apt to play them with
>the kids in the afternoons and I'll also have
>something to entice my kids with ... "we'll play games
>when school is done, etc."
>
>This week I have to begin weaning them off of the TV
>again - LOL! We've had a nice month break from school
>and they'll be visiting my dh's family from 6/29-7/3.
>My dh is taking them back to the farm where he grew up
>(now his brother's home) and I get to stay behind BY
>MYSELF (double YIPPEE!!) and get some school
>scheduling finished, do some scrapbooking, begin
>sanding kitchen cabinets so that we can paint them,
>read a book, rent some movies and eat some take-out
>food that only I like! My dh does this for me every
>couple of years or so and it really is nice to just
>spend a few days alone doing my own thing. We'll all
>be together for July 4th and the few days after and
>then we'll start school - I can't wait! Now, if I can
>only make this "time alone" a yearly thing - LOL!
>
>Kris

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