Beginning February of this year, I finally signed the kids up to a Chinese calligraphy class. Best extra-curriculer class we took this semester, other than music. I’d
Year: 2016
I keep searching for my post of Chinese Reading Levels whenever I try to determine Thumper’s reading level. Looking through the archives, it seems that I
I’ve been wanting to make my own salted eggs, which is a classic Chinese dish, ever since I read about it from a homeschooler’s FB
With the new semester, I made some changes to our daily work plan. One of the my aim this semester is to get Thumper solidly reading in
After weeks of slacking off in science due to move, I finally did a presentation today on volcanos. It’s actually because our Story of the
I obsess over reading levels. Just a little bit. It’s hard to not obsess when you decide that English comes second to Chinese. While I know, logically, that
I started this post about 7-8 months ago but decided that I really needed to wait to see if what I tried worked before posting. I’m
Picking the right level books for Astroboy and Thumper was a difficult task until recently, when Thumper has finally read through multiple levels for me
There is an odd phenomenon that school teachers have always observed. Come spring time, students start getting antsy and can’t sit still or pay attention.
For my second profile, I’ve asked a fellow homeschooler in our co-op group, the one I used to call Super-prep Co-Op Mama. I’ll be calling her Eclectic Mama (with