by Alice Nine | A9 Journal, In My Classroom |
SOL25-1202 It had been a full morning. Full. But good. The productive sort of good. Seven siblings and cousins from kindergarten through eighth grade have been busy with their lessons. Math. Language arts. Science. Social studies. T6, who is 7 years old, is working...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal, In My Classroom |
SOL25-0916 The marine layer rolls in like a whispered secret, softening the edges of the Oregon Coast and turning the familiar into something dreamlike. Foggy mornings here aren’t gloomy, they’re pure magic. The Oregon Coast I.Supper was take-out—clam chowder...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal, In My Classroom, Literacy |
SOL25 #0718 Grasshopper Yesterday, I paused when I spied a tiny grasshopper sitting so still on the handle of my garden hoe that I was turning over for safety reasons. He was beautiful. He was so translucent in the morning sunlight. So delicate. I dared not touch him....
by Alice Nine | In My Classroom, Literacy |
She wrote: “I’m considering homeschooling my soon to be kindergartner and have no idea how to do so.” I responded . . . Welcome to the homeschooling journey! You can do it. You may feel inadequate. You may wonder what to do, and then you’ll...
by Alice Nine | In My Classroom, Literacy |
She wrote, “I am very very new to homeschooling . . .” and asked for help. So I wrote . . . and then over several weeks I added even more and published this blog post. “Ah! The homeschooling journey! Think of it as another facet of your motherhood....
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal, In My Classroom |
Poetry Friday It was May 3rd and I was leisurely reading all things poetry shared by my #PoetryFriday friends. That is when I came across Michelle Heidenrich Barnes’s DMC challenge for May on Today’s Little Ditty. Michelle asked us to write a poem giving...
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