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Adios, Teenagers!

Posted by Homeschool_Dad

July 9, 2007 |

I did a search and found the link for our house..in case you are interested. Our House It has some interior shots… FOrgive the commercialism…I was trying to sell it at the time.

Well a few hours ago I dropped the two teen boys off at church. They are on their way to youth camp for the week. I believe they packed everything they could need; at least one pair of underwear (each, I hope), toothbrushes, and makeup.
Yeah. See I think that youth camp is all about painting toenails…the GUYS toenails if they are silly enough to fall asleep.
Here at home Shiloh (11) , Sean (8), Nick (7), and Kyrie (4) will be helping me hold down the fort…Marc is still on bedrest and so we are doing quite alot. Taking on more seems daunting at the moment but it is all worth it when the older boys come home invigorated..and appreciative!
They doubled up on school a few weeks ago so that they would not be behind. I didn’t even have to encourage that! WHOOHOOO!
Math is one of those subjects that has been a struggle at our house. I am just not convinced in the wisdom of unschooling mathmatics and so I have tried program after program. For years I settled with Saxon, even though I was dissatisfied with it.
This year I bought Math U See.
DING! WOW! We love it. Really. Matt is using it for algebra….The rest of the kids are hurdling through it in an amazing way. It is set up so if they learn a concept the first time they can skip on, if not there are several pages of practice. Kyrie builds with the manipulatives while the others work on their lesson and I just answer questions as they come up..I like it!
The hardest part of Math U See for us has been keeping up with the manipulatives which look a bit like legos, at least to a 4 year old with a creative mind. So, to offset THAT I have offered a reward of a penny a piece when it is found and returned to the box.
Anyway…Math-U-See has a blog, Math U See and there are some interesting bits of information as well as informatin about using it.
Here is another blogger that is considering it Halfpint House
Well, as usual the library timer is ticking down and I have three minutes to hit publish! HAve a great day!


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2 Comments so far

  1. ethan on July 11, 2007 4:28 pm

    Nice looking house :-) I like your short MUS review “DING! WOW! we love it” :-) Have fun teaching math!

  2. homeschool on July 12, 2007 10:46 am

    I have a 13 year old named Ethan..I was worried for a minute that he had found me…and my cover was blown.. :/
    whew!

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