http://pluttification.com Villa Villekulla... but not really Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:03:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We're here!  Holidays... for real!  But, much to the kids' chagrine, it's not going to be all fun and games.  No way. I prepared long and hard so that we would have interesting things to do, that made for fun, clever ways to achieve some academic outcomes without feeling like we're ... http://pluttification.com/?p=61 Today is the last day home before taking off tomorrow.  There will be no structured school today... OK, there was little to none yesterday too- so, sue me.... I am too busy cruising the blogosphere putting together my little bitty community newspaper before we leave.  In theory this little rag ... http://pluttification.com/?p=60 I have spent the past many, many days preparing for two lapbooking units for my two boys.  This is my first real effort in creating study units.  We are going to be gone for a month and I figured what better- and less cumbersome- way to take on these units ... http://pluttification.com/?p=59 Oh, and make sure you head on over to BlogNosh Magazine to get a taste of some straight talk with Straight Shooter!  A great post of hers... hand-picked by yours truly... will be re-published in its entirety over there Tuesday morning- that's tomorrow, folks.  Believe me, she gives good laugh! So, ... http://pluttification.com/?p=58 There isn't much time left. Time's a-wastin'! Check out Kids Know Stuff for a great give-away!! Yes, you!  Go, now! http://pluttification.com/?p=57 Today is the last day of July.  It has been a couple of days short of a month since my last post. That could simply be all, given that we haven't yet even cracked a module or math workbook since our last meeting with Boss-lady.  But, y'know.  To this, I say, ... http://pluttification.com/?p=56 Oh Hell. I dunno. It just kind of characterizes our homeschool experience so far.... I really do let my own highschool baggage get in the way sometimes. Our meeting with our homeschool boss-lady last Friday went, in fact, completely without incident, without frustration and without namecalling judgement. Boss-lady (for ... http://pluttification.com/?p=55 We meet with our Distance Education Liason with the School District tomorrow. Our last check-in/assessment/evaluation before the summer break. We have not completed this last 'module'. We will have merely the first of I don't know how many math workbooks completed, just, to present to her. She will ask ... http://pluttification.com/?p=54 Yesterday marked the launch of BlogNosh Magazine... an online magazine featuring the best archived content from primarily personal blogs, spotlighting a cross-section of topics and perspectives. New posts daily. As an Editor in the Education Channel, I am so excited about this! It ... http://pluttification.com/?p=53 Things have been a little free and easy here in our Rocky Mountain Homeschool. The gardening has taken a fair bit of work, but other than his voracious reading of one graphic novel after another, not a whole lotta academics is going on. Oops. Other than twice ... http://pluttification.com/?p=52