Posted by: Ruth de los Santos on: May 28, 2009
No more pencils,no more books, no more teachers dirty looks. When the teacher rings the bell, “Hooray, it’s summer!” I shall yell! Normally we would go until Friday, but tomorrow we’re going to the aquarium for an end of the year field trip celebration with Grandma Sandy. So, without further adieu, I’ll post the final [...]
Posted by: Ruth de los Santos on: May 26, 2009
My husband was born and raised in the Philippines. His family was poor when he was small, and his mother and father worked hard to change that. They were industrious, thrifty and hard workers. When My husband was 15 or so, his mother came to the United States and worked hard and saved money. She [...]
Posted by: Ruth de los Santos on: May 22, 2009
What is a unit study? Well, when you create a unit study, you’re selecting ONE topic that will be used through all subjects. Sounds daunting, but really, it’s fun and a great way to get creative. Steps make everything in life easier, so here are the steps I use when I’m creating a unit study. [...]
Posted by: Ruth de los Santos on: May 18, 2009
In my opinion, there are many, many advantages of homeschooling, as I’ve dicussed here before. However, I feel compelled to discuss what, in my opinion is the biggest advantage there is, and that is that the homeschooled child can go at their own pace. In the beginning of this year, I taught a unit on [...]
Posted by: Ruth de los Santos on: May 14, 2009
We’re just about done with 2nd grade. We’ve already had our final review for the year, and I suppose if I weren’t so anally structured we could technically just stop now, since we’ve covered everything. But, we’re still going to go through until the last Friday in May as originally planned. We have some lapbooks [...]
Posted by: Ruth de los Santos on: May 13, 2009
I was blessed with a reading program that I can borrow next year – for free. It’s both for grade 3 and 4, I’ll start with the 3rd grade and if she gets bored, we’ll go to the 4th, but it looks fantastic. The Maryland schools us this, it’s the Houghton Mifflin Reading program. It’s [...]
Posted by: Ruth de los Santos on: May 4, 2009
We’re at that point in our school year when we can start counting down to the last day. We have 4 weeks to go and on Friday, May 29th we’ll celebrate our last day of 2nd grade – we’re very excited. Over the summer, we plan to continue with math u see, and a workbook [...]
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