Sunday, July 27, 2008

Love, Live, Learn

I decided to title our "home learning record blog" after our very simple homeschooling motto.  It is the basic and simple reason we homeschool and also directs (in many ways) what we focus on in our home learning adventure (except when I get off on a tangent - whoops!)  

LOVE God and Others
LIVE for His Glory
LEARN to love learning

If, Lord willing and by his Grace, I can instill this into the hearts of my children, I will be able to call this home learning adventure a great success in light of eternity!

my new blog is actually

my attempt to simplify my home learning records - sort of an online diary of what we have done and learned about each week (or month, but hopefully I can blog here at least once a week).  

My purposes are really two fold:  

First, I would just like to have something for my children and I to look back on and say "oh yeah, remember when we did that?  

Second, we are a part of a charter school (that is SUPER homeschool friendly) so I have to turn in "learning records" once a month.  I LOVE almost everything about our great charter school but I cringe every month as I try to go back through the month remembering what we did, what books we read, etc. . . and then I have to list it all out.  Hmmm. . . I thought. . . maybe I can just keep a weekly list here and then ask my EF (Educational Facilitator) to just log in and print it out if she wants a list of books and activities!  

So, new blog here we come (well, most likely I will be back here about 1 week after Labor Day.  LOL!)

More on the title later. . .