Week 36: May Days

This month has been hectic.  And we’re only on the 7th day (as I type this).   Where to start? Let’s talk about Jessica for a moment.  Jessica isn’t homeschooled.  She has been attending a private Christian school for the past year and a half.  She graduates in exactly two weeks. It has definitely been a [...]

Week 35: The Finish Line Is Almost Within Reach

I blogged last week that we didn’t have any field trips planned for this week, but we ended up going to the ice rink on Wednesday.  It’s been over a month since the boys were on ice, and they were really itching to skate. While we were lacing up, the manager of the rink asked [...]

Week 6: Johnny Appleseed Unit Study – Part II

This week we finished up the second half of our Johnny Appleseed Unit Study. We started the week with an “Apple-product Tasting”.  We sampled several items that contained apples and wrote our observations down.  In an effort to keep the project moving along, we did happy faces/sad faces instead of words.  Here is what we [...]

Week 4: Cooking Project Week

Now that we are using the DVD lessons instead of the online lessons, our school day runs like a well-oiled machine!  We are digging the homeschool decision! This week I unofficially dubbed, “Cooking Project Week”.  I think we did a cooking project every day.  All of the projects were yummy too.    I picked a [...]

Week 3: Things Are Looking Up

Last week started out really bad again.  The online videos weren’t working during “peak” hours, and BJU’s tech support was of no help at all.  They kept insisting that the problem wasn’t on their end.  But Monday morning, there was a broadcast message to those of us who use the online videos, and it stated [...]

Second Week of School is ‘In The Books’

Our second week of school was a nightmare.  We couldn’t get the videos to play, the internet modem died, and I was in my second week of not smoking. I think everyone must have started their school week last week because BJU was swamped with traffic.  Everything was taking forever to load, and once it [...]

First Week Wrap-Up

Well, we finished our first week of school.  All in all, I have to say that it went pretty well.  We did experience internet glitches between 10am – 11am every day.  Perhaps BJU wasn’t prepared for the traffic?  I know for sure the problem wasn’t on our end. Hopefully they get that taken care of [...]

Our First Day

I’ll start at the beginning, which was really last night. I had spent last week pulling all of our lessons together, and organizing them according to the workbox number they would be assigned to.  So last night, I simply pulled out the baggie that contained all of Monday’s lessons for each boy.  Here are some pictures [...]

Can Somebody Toss Me a Life Preserver?

Today was the first day I was able to access the boys’ online lessons.  Wow.  I am overwhelmed.  I admit it. I was so excited to finally be able to dig around in what they will be learning this year.  As I started with Ty’s portal, I quickly came to realize that this is for [...]

You Could Say This Was Our First Field Trip…

My boys love Bass Pro.  To them, Bass Pro is like a wonderful theme park.  Even the glass elevators are considered “rides”. Bass Pro is a good 45 minute drive for us.  I tend to not go there often because they are so far away, and because I find it difficult to leave that store [...]

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