Every week, I think about writing a post on our progress in homeschooling, thoughts on books, and what we’ve been up to. But nothing gets
Author: Guavarama
For our new semester, I’ve decided to switch from our New American Cursive handwriting practice to something else, mostly because I was raised on the old style
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
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
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
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