Hello! I’m Loura and I’ve been homeschooling my two kids since 2020. Thanks for checking out this corner of my website. Here you’ll find my end-of-the-year homeschooling writeups, booklists, and whatever else strikes my fancy. If you had to put me in a box, I’m a rigorous, eclectic, and secular homeschool mom who also works fulltime. I’m raising my kids to be well-rounded, educated, and kind individuals.
Homeschooling
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My son cracks me up đ. Of course he sends this 20 minutes before his science class when I'm stuck in a long meeting.
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Finally finished back-filling some pages for our previous years of homeschooling. I also added links to them on the homeschooling category page of my blog.
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I took some time to update my homeschooling page “Eighth Grade for 2023-2024” with what we’ve done so far this year. So far he’s 50/50 on continuing homeschooling for high school next year or trying out the local public school.
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My son and I have had friction homeschooling this year. So yesterday morning we spent two hours brainstorming what to do and when he was last really happy with school. Turns out he was happiest when he read all the time. So we’re adjusting and adding in his wonderful choices â¤ī¸đ
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It’s that time of year when all my homeschooling plans start to unravel and I need to pivot our materials đ. One day I will learn to only plan out a semester at a time.
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And the busy season begins: homeschool, work, kid chauffeur, keeping active, keeping the house in order, and finding time for my hobbies.
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Probably not its intended use case, but the Micro.blog bookshelf feature made it a cinch to put together my son’s free reading list this year.
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It’s full on homeschool prep today. My poor printer has its work cut out for it. Tomorrow starts 8th grade for my son and my daughter starts 6th grade at the local public school.
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I wandered over to my company’s shared office space today. They are really making the outdoor space nice. If I didn’t have homeschooling/kid responsibilities I could see myself coming here more often.
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Whew! Homeschooling this year is officially done! Since I had to go through all the trouble of writing up progress reports I decided to toss them up on my blog. Except not bullet lists but prettier and with pictures. Check it out if you’d like: Seventh Grade and Fifth Grade đĨŗ
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