Frog Blog

I have started up a homeschool blog called The Journey. Our Homeschool Journey will be based on Isaiah 54:13 says “All your children shall be taught by the LORD, and great shall be the peace of your children.”

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Between birthday activities and sore back ache, shopping and just trying feed the family I am actually managing to sort of keep up with our activities. I have found that to incorporate the OT homework/activities and to keep up with the curriculum can be both a good and a bad thing. Good for Elijah as [...]

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Update: I am using Hands on Homeschooling age2 for my 3 yr old. We are attending a few session with an occupational therapist. My Son has a bit of low muscle tone and she has really shown me in a direction I had not thought of taking…regarding abilities…I am slowly just doing things with him. [...]

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I have tried two approaches with Elijah and we are now attempting another one… 1. The first “idea” i had was to read stories and have “theme” weeks that i set out each week – the problem – i didnt have enough experience and then E was too young for most of the stuff i [...]

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Monday – a trip to the library. We took out two books on airplanes. We read and reread them Tuesday – a trip to the airport to say goodbye to Gerry, Sue and Aiden. A perfect opportunity to go watch planes take off and land. Elijah thoroughly enjoyed himself and didn’t want to leave. We [...]

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I have been terribly busy trying to get started and to keep up. This week the book I am reading to Elijah is A Treasury of Children’s Literature Our theme for this week is the Farm! The animals, their sounds, what grows on the farm, who lives there. I am trying to put together a [...]

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I bought some lacing cards. I really love these…i think it is a real challenge as a skill to learn. I bought four: Animals and you lace a shoestring through the holes. I think this is something you can buy from Smile although i am not sure. I am having so much fun with the [...]

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We are reading a lot of books. The writing exercises has been suspended because Elijah is not interested yet. We are starting Kindermusiek this week as well as Playball. Our weeks are filling up quite quickly.  With the cold weather it has been difficult to arrange outdoor activities. We did manage a trip to animaland [...]

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Something wonderful happened this past week – Elijah started to copy actions and words. So hopefully this will lead to a bit more “school” type work that helps me to feel that I am being constructive. To also be able show people around us that Although We are keeping Elijah at home, we are achieving [...]

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4I have decided to change the way I do my check-ins. From now on I will be reporting what We have done rather than what I want to do. This week, so far, I have made some bean bags (the throwing kind) in red, blue and yellow. I am focusing on play this week, while [...]

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