2013-2014 Curriculum Plans vs Reality

The year academic is officially over! For fun, and future knowledge, I'm putting together a post on my plans for the year verses what actually went down in the Cotter homeschool. Let's see if they post makes me feel worse or better about the year. I'll let you know when I'm  done. Bean – 2nd Grade Math Rightstart Mathematics – Level...

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Summer Bingo or How we Prevent the Summer Slide

Let's be honest. As a homeschooling momma, if I allow my kids to participate in the summer slide, the main person I'm hurting is myself. While I sometimes have dreams of abandoning all educational efforts for a full three months, I know that it wouldn't be worth it when we start school again and my kids have forgotten all of those math facts and spelling...

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The Good Shepherd's Garden Party: Week 5

Inspired by Jessica and Charlotte we have an Easter tradition in our home of celebrating the entire Easter season with the Garden of the Good Shepherd. The program consists of a daily prayer time in which you add a scripture inspired sticker to your garden. By the end of Easter season your scene is filled with reminders of Jesus, the...

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American Girl Unit Studies: Caroline

We are studying our way through the American Girl historical characters as we learn American history. So far we have covered Kaya and Felicity and now we are ending this school year with Caroline. So far everyone has thoroughly enjoyed this approach to history, so we'll be picking this back up in the fall! I've coordinated these units...

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Ideas for Classically Catholic Memory: Gamma Year: Week 18

Classically Catholic Memory: Gamma Year: Week 18 I'm blogging my way through our four year curriculum program so I don't forget everything that worked for us! Please feel free to use what works for your family and share in the comments anything you would add. For more on Classically Catholic Memory go here. Religion At Worksheet Works I...

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June Feast Day Ideas

Here are some of our favorite traditions for the month of June. This is by no means an exhaustive list, rather it's my way of creating a resource that I plan to revisit each year for myself! I hope you can find it beneficial as well! Month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Other Ideas: Prayers: TheSacredHeart.com Book: The Story of the Sacred...

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Ideas for Classically Catholic Memory: Gamma Year: Week 17

Classically Catholic Memory: Gamma Year: Week 17 I'm blogging my way through our four year curriculum program so I don't forget everything that worked for us! Please feel free to use what works for your family and share in the comments anything you would add. For more on Classically Catholic Memory go here. Religion Lesson 1 At Worksheet...

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