Geez, I was so good there for a pretty long while with posting on my blog regularly and now I'm back to being a little sporadic. My apologies to all those who check my blog on a regular basis and have been seeing very few posts recently. Brenna has really been hogging the computer lately and I can hardly even check my email! We subscribed to this very awesome website called brainpop.com and she's on it all the time. There are tons of videos on science, math, social studies, ect.....very schooly with quizzes and everything but it's something she really wanted to get. Then there's Club Penguin of course, which is her alternate life. LOL
We've also started co-ops again with the homeschool group and that's every Friday morning for the next month or so. Brenna's group has been playing kickball and this week they are going to start on dodge ball. She's also taking an art class, which she looooves! It seems like this year she has really formed a little 'clic' with some of the other girls. I see lots of play dates in our future. :) Don't know if I can handle many more.....LOL
So this weekend we are going camping! Yea! We're going to be meeting Dea Jae and Dave at Choke Canyon State Park and staying for only two nights. I looked at the forecast and it's supposed to be in the 50's at night and around 80 during the day. Beautiful camping weather! Nice warm camp fire to keep us toasty. I'm sure I'll have lots of pictures to post when we get back. Today I have been getting things ready. Every time we go it gets easier and easier and the less we have to buy. Actually this time that's all we have to spend money on is food. Camping is so cheap for us now and I love it!
Okay, well Brenna is pretending to play ToonTown in real life and it is getting very difficult to try and keep up with her and type at the same time. So I will end with a quote tonight......
"When we adults think of children there is a simple truth that we ignore: childhood is not preparation for life; childhood is life. A child isn't getting ready to live; a child is living." John A Taylor
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"I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better."
-Anne Sullivan
Brendon and Brandi
Brenna - getting so big
"Children are not trains. If a train does not reach every station on time, it will be late reaching it's ultimate destination. But a child can be late at any "station", and can even change the entire route of the learning process, and still reach every area of learning."
-John Holt
-John Holt
Brenna LOVES watermelon!!
My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.
--George Bernard Shaw
--George Bernard Shaw
Our dog, Mazzi
At Sea World
Brendon and Me
Grandma Shore and Brenna
"Homeschooling is not a way to keep our children
shut off from the world, but rather a way for them to
participate more fully in it." -author unknown
shut off from the world, but rather a way for them to
participate more fully in it." -author unknown
Brenna and Brandi
Brenna and Grandma Dawn
Brenna at the Hunting Lease
You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.
-Clay P. Bedford
-Clay P. Bedford
Brenna and Smitty
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ~Albert Einstein
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ~Robert Maynard Hutchins
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ~Mark Twain
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ~Robert Maynard Hutchins
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ~Mark Twain
Brenna and a dolphin at Sea World
"Just because someone is "teaching" doesn't mean anyone is learning". ~Ned Vare
Brenna and Tantrum
"The perpetual testing of public school children is like a gardener constantly pulling his plants up by the roots to see if they are growing."(unknown)
Brendon and Brenna at a 4-D show
Brenna did not want to get wet - reason for the towel LOL
Grandpa and Brenna
Childhood is not preparation for adulthood - it is a part of life.
-A. Neill
-A. Neill
Brenna Doctoring Her Papa
Brenna and her best friend, Rhiannon
My niece, Keira
Brenna and her cousin, Kastine
At The Park
Brenna and Brendon at Garner
Brandi and Brenna
"You can not make a child walk before they are ready.
You can not make a child read before they are ready.
You can however make a child think they are dumb or learn to hate reading if you push them before they are capable." -Stephanie, Throwing Marshmallows
You can not make a child read before they are ready.
You can however make a child think they are dumb or learn to hate reading if you push them before they are capable." -Stephanie, Throwing Marshmallows
Going Fishin'
Links To Some Good Sites
"The best way to give a child values is to spend time with him and to let him see how you live your life. You act in a way that reflects what you believe, you talk to him about things that matter and you tell him about you, your life, and your choices. Your child will know you better because he has spent meaningful time with you, learning, serving and growing together. This builds a family that can last forever. That's a benefit of homeschooling that makes every minute worthwhile." From the book "Homeschooling - Take a Deep Breath, You Can Do This"
2 comments:
OMG I love brainpop! Christian and I would watch it all the time!
Great to see ya back on here Brandi :)
Mom :)
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