Week in Review 19: The One With [Maria’s] Birthday

All Summer long we worked on reading. Lots of reading — I read tons about systematically teaching reading. The kids practiced phonics. We’ve been making such good progress. I believe when we started last school year Josie was stuck at the end of the red drawers, maybe beginning orange, and Mary was around green. Pic…

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Homeschool Strings Christmas Concert

The girls performed in a Christmas concert with their homeschool string orchestra this week. They’ve been practicing a ton; we’re so proud! The first two clips below have both girls playing violin, and the third video is the extra piece that just Josie’s group learned. We are so blessed to participate in such a wonderful…

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Homeschool Week in Review: Vol 16

We logged a lot of hours homeschooling this week. We normally take December completely off for a breather. However November had a lot of off days, so I decided to homeschool on. The beauty of homeschooling is you can take a break when you need to and come back to it when you’re ready to…

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Our Montessori Homeschooling Week: Vol 8

Where to even begin with this busy week?  Goodbye April –> Hello May! April 29th – May 5th On Sunday both our girls made their first holy communions. *swoon* Misc Fun:  Yesterday, we took a beach trip and had a visit with good friends in Pensacola. There was a Crawfish Festival going on, and we spent…

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Our Montessori Homeschooling Week: Vol 7

Alright, alright, alright… let’s get right down to business. In exciting family news, the girls make their first holy communion tomorrow, the kids’ violin recital is in a week, my sister got ENGAGED today (I hope I’m allowed to proclaim that Megs because we are EXCITED), and as always we continue truckin’ along with school….

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Montessori Homeschooling Week in Review: Vol 5

Wow another week blew by so quickly! Somehow I am already in my 34th week of pregnancy and not feeling like working so much, yet we homeschool on. Tonight we are attending a special needs fundraising gala-type-thing, and I’m wearing comfy flats, my maternity dress from Easter #sorrynotsorry and telling baby to scootch over and…

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Homeschooling Week in Review: Vol 2

Happy weekend friends! Our week was full of doctor appointments, therapies and other shenanigans. Somehow we managed to almost complete our weekly to-do list. Sensorial:  I had great ambitions this week for completing our constructive triangle work and adding some tasting bottles to the shelf, but we just ran out of time for those this…

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Homeschool Strings Orchestra Recital

The girls participated in the homeschool strings orchestra this year. They are still learning to read music, but they were so proud to be a part of the group. They even were awarded ribbons for practicing. Here’s one song from their Spring recital performance.  

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Spring Violin Recital Time!

My kids have been working super hard on their violin pieces for the Spring recital — and drumroll please — here’s the product of their hard work: I am so proud of them — especially Josie. I want to say, hey world, here’s what intellectual disability looks like. Looks like a super cute kid in…

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