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The Dog Show

Well, I’ll tell you, we have been keeping busy.  The homeschool groups in our area are really active and they find every little thing there is to do around here and can keep you busy forever doing a million different things if you so desire.   It’s been fun.
Anyway, one of the things we did this [...]

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Tora! Tora! Tora!

A few weeks back Don and I took Rye and a couple of his friends to see a World War II airshow. I can’t tell you how cool this airshow was.  We saw tons of different WWII airplanes, a couple of different sets of parachuters, a trick plane and an air show with people walking [...]

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7th Grade: The Class Schedule

After much deliberation we finally decided on a class schedule for this year.
English (reading, writing, grammar), Pre-Algebra (Bob Jones textbook), General Science (the same 7th grade science he would have had in school), American History, Art (pottery and photography & photo edit later in the year), PE (basketball team and baseball team), Music (guitar lessons)
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Sometimes You Feel Like A Nut

Rye’s Reading.
As a part of our homeschool work I make Rye read a part of his reading assignment out loud every day as he is dyslexic and I need to make sure he is reading all of the words correctly.  Also, this way he can ask me how to pronounce words as we go or [...]

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Pottery Love

One of the things Rye is doing now that he is homeschooling is taking a pottery class.  Or, ceramics, if you will.  And he LOVES it.  I mean loves it.  He has only been twice so far but every time we go he says he wishes he could stay in the pottery studio all day.  [...]

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Homeschool: Reunited And It Feels So Good

Yes, we are officially homeschooling again.
And now we’ll need a few days to decompress from the ‘heightened state of awareness’ lifestyle we’ve become accustomed to living.
Because when you are a special needs child or the parent of a special needs child and you are dealing with lower functioning public schools [of which there are way [...]

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America: The Story Of Us ~ The History Channel

We are watching this History Channel series on the history of America now as a part of our homeschooling and I can’t even tell you how good it is.  We have just started but we are watching one episode a day to enhance our learning of American History and it is really entertaining.  It is [...]

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It’s Friday!

Well, we had a good day here today.  Rye is still hyper as can be but he was perky for the most part today.
Thank God.
Given our mediocre success with book work the past few days, I figured it best for everyone’s sanity to keep busy in lieu of book work so we headed an hour [...]

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Homeschooling Manic Bipolar

The first half of our day went like this:

After which, I felt like this:
And wanted to do this:

But somehow we made it.
And we are both still here and alive.
Well, he’s now asleep.
I’m awake and still alive.
And now I’m going to work in the garden.  Hello peace and solitude.
Amen.

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Baby Steps

Just a quick post to say we are seeing a little progress.  Rye is off the Abilify today as he took it for 2 days and it did calm the extreme mania but made him feel bad so now he is just on the Depakote and the Depakote is starting to kick in.  Rye is [...]

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Garden Love

For the past couple of days Rye and I have spent time getting the garden ready and planted.
We planted:  tomatoes, okra, jalapenos, bell peppers, eggplant, cucumbers, zucchini, green beans and this weekend will start the herbs and various weird things we don’t expect to grow.
Because Rye has spent a great deal of time with his [...]

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