tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18432320890047170672024-03-13T09:51:38.982-07:00Skool @ da Hil HowseAll about the going-ons of our home school and life.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04895525407535713055noreply@blogger.comBlogger107125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843232089004717067.post-50182648792874136522015-09-20T16:47:00.000-07:002015-09-20T16:47:45.026-07:00The 2015/2016 School year is now in session!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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School is officially in at the Hill Learnig Academy! This homeschool year, we only have three students instead of four. Our schedules are going to be all over the place this year, but we are going to make homeschooling work. I'm in the process of weaning myself off of Facebook so I'm planning to do a lot of blogging and posting on Instagram. </div>
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This year we have a crazy school schedule. We will start each week on Sunday afternoon, Monday morning and late afternoon, Wednesday morning and late afternoon, and Thursday early morning. Friday will be our designated field trip day. Big P doesn't have college classes that day so it should work out for her to attend when she likes.</div>
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We have a variety of curriculum this year. The little kids are doing apology astronomy While Tre will be studying biology using Easy Peasy homeschool. For Math, we will eventually be using saxon 54 for the little people and our 9th grader will be completing algebra one utilizing Easy Peasy homeschool. <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This week we have been reviewing basic addition and subtraction facts with the little ones. They love competition so, we have been competing by going through the flash cards for speed and accuracy. They</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> all are diving into Sonlight core F. Cursive is high up on our list of things to perfect. </span></div>
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We began our study of China and communism. Here are some of the youtube videos we used as supplementation: </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04895525407535713055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843232089004717067.post-53853696057977945332015-08-10T18:30:00.001-07:002015-08-10T18:34:43.703-07:00Cotton Museum in Memphis<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Earlier this month we went on a field trip with our PEAK Tupelo homeschool group to <a href="http://memphiscottonmuseum.org/" target="_blank">The Memphis Cotton Museum</a> in Memphis. There was a traveling Faulkner's world exhibit on display in addition to the normal exhibits. All of the kids gave the museum a thumbs up for sure. The staff there were extra nice and very informed on all things cotton. It's for sure worth checking out, especially if you are able to get the group rate!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We also had fun at Alabama Splash adventure. Sorry no pictures (didn't want to get my phone wet) ha! It was a splash blast for sure! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Last but, not least Precious finally has her license in preparation for her first day of college next week. Whoohoo!! Yeah we cut it really close. </span><br />
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<br /><br />So, like many blogs, ours has lain dormant for some time. I felt led to update things a little bit around here tonight so I decided to start with the most recent events. We have a graduate! Our first little princess graduated from high school at the first of this month. I can't find the words to explain how emotional it is to see your baby walk across that stage. I was proud to say the least. So proud of our Baby Girl as she closes her chapter of homeschool and starts her chapter into college. <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04895525407535713055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843232089004717067.post-90282690577867488052013-08-06T14:02:00.001-07:002013-08-06T14:04:48.680-07:008/6/13 school update day 12<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Howdy, all of you who care what we do! Thanks for stopping by. We haven't blogged in a very long time so I thought we would do an update today. It's rainy here.. that's an understatement. There is thunderstorm rolling through and I sure hope it is all the way through by the time we go to speech in a little while. Anywho! Today we did school. We are on day 12 of our school year. The kids were begging to start. Big P has a job babysitting for a family so it's been different with her not around. I guess at some point the 16 year old has to fly might as well be sooner than later. right? <br />
I had all intentions to buy My Father's World this year. It was even in the shopping cart but, we did a total 360 and are doing something different. We are using a lot of the Easy Peasy homeschool curriculum this year. I have looked over a lot of it and we love it!<br />
Little P, who is 7 and a very advanced reader doing the third grade material on the site and working from her Spectrum math book. We are also using a lot of worksheets from Enchanted Learning for her as well since she loves busy work. I will tell you what things we have done with the other ones later. <br />
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Today we learned about <a href="http://www.simpsonell.com/web-based.cfm?subpage=823938" target="_blank">tall tales</a>. The kids loved the story of <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Henry-27527.jpg" target="_blank">John Henry</a>. Here is the video they watched that kept buffering because our internet does not like storms. <br />
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It was a perfect video to watch on a stormy day with the kids. It was also a great intro to our opening study of African American history. We plan to spotlight at least one African American person per week for them so they can have a better grasp on their own history and that of their ancestors. I am not following a specific curriculum so you will have to just check back and see who we learn about next. </div>
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Of course Little P heard James Earl Jones on the clip and instantly said is that Simba's daddy? </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04895525407535713055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843232089004717067.post-52275265637690352272013-01-21T04:45:00.001-08:002013-01-21T04:45:49.098-08:00Week in review<p>Last week went by way to fast. Lots of schoop, lots of work for me. We got a little dusting of snow which was exciting until it melted a couple of hours later. On Sunday we participated in The community Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. program. The kids all enjoyed the program which included a drill team performance, selections by The MLK choir, a very moving key note speech by Ms. Juanita Gambrill Floyd, and the presentation of the drum major award to Mr. Mack Turner. The program was followed by a brief reception, after which we went and hung out with the local SCA group and watched some fighting, tended a fire, and had a conversation with friends about racoon parts and hunting. Hope.this week turns out not as busy but, fun. Untl my next post, have a good one. </p>
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A while back, I had the opportunity to <a href="http://hilhowseskool.blogspot.com/2012/11/time4learning-review.html" target="_blank">review</a> <a href="http://www.time4learning.com/" target="_blank">Time 4 Learning</a>. I actually was happy to be able to review this site because I have heard good things about it from other homeschool families. The review came at a good time because we were spending some vacation time from our normal schoolwork anyway. I tend to not be really big on kids spending a whole lot of time on the pc for games so my kids loved to be able to have two hours each per day set aside just for the Time 4 Learning site. </div>
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The set-up was fairly simple. I logged in, created a profile for each student which included which grade level I wanted them to study in, and chose the amount of time they should spend on each lesson or subject. Each child got their own login id and had to log in on their own account. I thought this was nice because it taught them a skill that they will need as they use further internet sites later in life. </div>
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My youngest child, who is six, studied at three different grade levels since her math is on level, her reading well above, and her other subjects I wanted to keep the same as her older brother's so we could do projects or have discussions together in relation to what they learned. She absolutely loved it. She even has been asking me if she can spend time on Time 4 Learning even now that our trial is over.</div>
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My youngest son is eight and still has some challenges as it comes to reading. Because I am the one who sets their levels, it was good for his self-esteem to not realize he was set at a lower level than his younger sister. He really enjoyed the games that were really learning exercises. I was able to log-in later and see what his scores were in what section and direct him to do exercises over. </div>
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In conclusion I enjoyed the review of Time 4 Learning and will probably add it into our "school time" for this semester. I will, however, only allow the kids one hour each on the site. I still prefer them to do most of their learning with books and paper. I tend to be a tad bit old-school on that one. </div>
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Today was a normal homeschool day for us. We started out at 5:30am which was terribly early for me because I spent a long time visiting a friend last night . Little P and middle P both got up and did reading, social studies, spelling, language, and writing. Little P finished her math quickly and headed back to bed but, the boys stayed up and played a computer game. Big P stayed in bed and finished her studies while I was at work. I got home late because I had a postpartum visit after I left work. By the time I got in everyone had already ate dinner but, before the kiddos went to bed we read aloud more of the Phantom Tollbooth and Little P read There's a Wocket in my Pocket and finished our science project from yesterday. <br />
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We finished school early yesterday morning and headed to <a href="http://www.tupelo.net/" target="_blank">The birthplace</a> for Elvis' 78th birthday celebration. It's just kind of hard to be in Tupelo and not catch a little Elvis craziness! We had cake with other Elvis fans, toured the birth pace and museum for free (yay!), watched a short film and a great performance by the Tupelo Unity Choir. I even saw myself in the <a href="http://djournal.com/view/full_story/21344007/article-Cake--choir-mark-Elvis--78th-birthday-in-Tupelo?instance=home_news_right" target="_blank">local paper</a> in one of the pictures. (I had not the slightest clue I was in the shot)<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04895525407535713055noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843232089004717067.post-81509504228115828562013-01-07T22:30:00.000-08:002013-01-09T07:05:56.681-08:00School Update 1/7/13<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Wow, we have been out of "school" way too long. I think it's been about a month. Somehow right after Thanksgiving we just never got back to it. Before I looked up it was the holidays. Whew, it's crazy jumping back in! Trying to get back into the groove seems to be hard for both me and the kids. As soon as we hit the table we dove right back in. Today was refresher day especially for Precious who is in Algebra 2. They have all be reading and writing during our no school days so that was good. Everybody finished three math lessons a piece today and all of their other studies. I think it was a good day overall. We even got an experiment started. We are doing the <a href="http://www.imaginationstationtoledo.org/content/2011/04/how-to-make-a-naked-egg/" target="_blank">naked egg experiment</a>. I didn't have any regular vinegar so we ended up using apple cider vinegar instead. Everybody made a hypothesis, even Daddy, to see what the egg would look like tomorrow. So stay tuned to see what happens next. We are discussing food and where we get ours from and reducing our carbon imprint and homesteading. On netflix we have watched and discussed a lot of shows on the subject. Today we watched No Impact Man. <br />
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It was a very good documentary. I really enjoyed it and so did all of the kids. We discussed what little things we could do to reduce our own impact. The kids really like eating local. We already get milk, eggs, and a lot of our vegetables locally. The kids decided that we would pick a new habit once per month and see if it is something we can stick with and they will do a project to see what the impact could possibly be. What is one thing you could do to increase your impact? </div>
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Today we went to the <a href="http://www.everythingwolf.com/visitingwh.aspx" target="_blank">Wolf Howl Animal Preserve</a> because it's Wolf Awareness Week this week. For recognition of this week the owners are allowing visits free of charge. The kids absolutely loved it. I guess it was interesting to me too! My favorite part was when one of the owners got in the cage and put down some curry powder so the wolves could demonstrate a scent roll. I was also fascinated to find out that the leader of their pack is an alpha female as opposed to a male. Overall I would totally recommend the trip and even am planning to go there again later this week so Daddy can check it out as well. <br />
School is going well. No complaints on either end. I just got home from the Birthing Project USA conference in San Diego so we will be sure to do school for the remainder of the week. <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04895525407535713055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843232089004717067.post-45442295108056963712012-09-11T21:27:00.001-07:002012-09-11T21:27:07.815-07:00Take it away Tuesday <div><p>School went great! My pc crashed. Praying my dear husband can fix it. <br>
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Today is Day 2 of school at Hill Learning Academy. The troops were funny today with looks of oh yeah we can't just run and play today? <br />
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Our little people played<a href="http://www.fun4thebrain.com/addition.html" target="_blank"> Math game</a>s and worked on reading and writing this morning. It's crazy how a couple of weeks of no school will ruin handwriting skills practiced daily. This is the first time we have not done any writing during the summer and boy did I see some horrible examples of penmanship today. Whew! Anyway we got off to a late start (word to the wise.. start early!) and that seemed to throw our entire day off. We spent a little while talking about cells today and explored quite a few websites on the subject. Some of the kids favorites were:<br />
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Yay! It's the first day of school at the Hill Learning Academy. Yes, it's Sunday. We have figured out that we will have to do school on Sunday in order for our life to work. Good thing is homeschooling makes that a possibility. I am so happy that I am able to spend this time with my children. A plus for us now is that Dad is home on Sunday and can add to our school activities on those days. This is going to be an interesting year with the way we are doing our school schedule but, I think it will work out good since I now have to work a full day at WIC.<br />
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Like most homeschool parents know, this time of year brings with interesting thoughts like - what am I doing? Why am I doing this? Will I be able to do it another year? Are my children learning what they should? blah blah blah blah!!!!<br />
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For me the answers don't come as quickly as they may for others but, they do come. Obviously they must all be positive ones since I am sitting here blogging about Day one of our 2012-2013 school year. <br />
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The run down for grades for all of you people who keep up with that sort of thing is 10th, 6th, 3rd kind of, and 1st. <br />
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So day 1 was full of fun. Of course we started it off at church. Daddy had a council meeting so we stayed a little later and I hung out for some adult conversation. <br />
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Once home, we had some chili dogs and fries for lunch and headed out to the <a href="http://www.flytupelo.com/taa/?page_id=775" target="_blank">Northeast Mississippi Aviation show</a> at the airport here in <a href="http://www.tupeloms.gov/" target="_blank">Tupelo, MS</a>. The kids loved it and were so excited to be able to see some of the very planes that they had touched and seen the insides of take off. The only downside of the event was that our new puppy, Captain Dodger, decided that he no longer wanted to be a arm dog and wanted to be able to walk around. He continued to yelp and yelp until we put him down. He will be getting a leash tomorrow for sure. <br />
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After we got home the boys finished some yard work with Dad and headed in for cool drinks and to get started with school. I have to say this is going to take some getting used to -beginning school when the rest of the world is winding down. It was a light day, getting notebooks together, preparing planners for the upcoming week's worth of work and discussing possible field trips this term. <br />
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Our nation of study is Jamaica. We have a<a href="http://compare.ebay.com/like/390465829764?var=lv&ltyp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar" target="_blank"> book</a> about Jamaica that we began to read and discussed the climate, geography, and habitat for Jamaica. We love you tube so of course we began to learn the Jamaican National Anthem from there. <br />
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Today was an okay Sunday. Lots of stormy weather tonight including a awesome lightening storm I got to drive in. Yay! What could have been better? We missed church because I was working on homework last night and got up way too late! We ended up at mama's house and then to KFC because they have a $6 buffet special down in Amory. After eating we toured the <a href="http://www.amoryregionalmuseum.com/page1.aspx" target="_blank">Amory Museum</a> because we hadn't been that way for a long time. Followed the day up with a visit to see Jimmy's grandmother who we haven't been able to see since she got out of the hospital because we have all had the worst upper respiratory/cold/sinus infections. (no one ever got a diagnosis. so I'm not sure what we had) Lots of <a href="https://www.google.com/webhp?rlz=1C1AVSX_enUS399US413&sourceid=chrome-instant&ie=UTF-8&ion=1#hl=en&sugexp=les%3B&gs_nf=1&tok=vllCbngaxDNcqD2yCfmPsw&cp=17&gs_id=7&xhr=t&q=jewish+penicillin&pf=p&rlz=1C1AVSX_enUS399US413&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&oq=jewish+penicillin&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=4c4e4dd9cacdc02d&biw=1366&bih=681&ion=1" target="_blank">Jewish Penicillin</a> took care of it though. Tomorrow is Labor Day and hopefully this storm will let up enough for us to have a good turn out for the <a href="http://www.improvingbirth.org/" target="_blank">Improving Birth National Rally</a> right here in Tupelo. <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04895525407535713055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843232089004717067.post-76990549184995684232012-06-25T18:22:00.001-07:002012-06-25T18:22:03.604-07:00blogging by phone<p><a href='http://lh5.ggpht.com/-iOY4hiFL9pU/T-kOuER7myI/AAAAAAAACZg/oBeqwucm-dE/s0/2012-06-22_18-42-51_698.jpg'><img src='http://lh5.ggpht.com/-iOY4hiFL9pU/T-kOuER7myI/AAAAAAAACZg/oBeqwucm-dE/s400/2012-06-22_18-42-51_698.jpg' /></a></p><p>So I posted on facebook today complaining about never having time to blog.  Shortly after the post, one of my friends suggested the possibility of posting by phone.  So here I go seeing how blogging by phone works.  I have hopes that I will post more often.</p>
<p> Just to update you, yesterday was our seventeenth wedding anniversary so here's a picture of us on our night out Friday with Precious while the kids were at vbs at Zion Baptist church in Pontotoc. </p>
<p> So until the next time....  Have a good one.  Toni</p>
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Busy day today. I was privileged to be present when a sweet baby girl was born yesterday. <br />
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After only a few hours rest, I broke down this morning and went to see the doctor to get a shot for these allergies that have been bothering me all week. Gotta love when things are blooming in Mississippi! That shot has me wired which explains why I'm up at midnight answering emails and catching up on some blogging. I was excited that I have kept off six pounds in the past month. That may not seem like much to you but, is truly a major accomplishment for me. <br />
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After that quickly home to get the kids, who were of course not ready, for a meeting at church, followed by what was supposed to be a quick shopping trip to three different stores in search of Mary Jane"s for my little girl. I can't believe I had to settle for some white flats. It was the most "little girl" pair. Picked them up from Children's Place for $8 so I wasn't upset about that. I don't shop in there but, at that price you can't beat it. I got a good deal on the dress too. It was on $11.50 at JcPenny's. I see another shopping trip in the future to get some decent church dresses for the summer. <br />
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It was a good day!. I'm sure you know what I mean when I say the kind of day that you want to blog about. Anyway, it started out the same as most Sundays do with <a href="http://www.christthekingtupelo.com/" target="_blank">church</a>. We went out for lunch which is super rare. Then I went home for a nap and the children, even Patience, actually let me sleep. Once I was up I had to finish homework and then out in the garden with the kids. We picked blackberries off of the unexpected vine by the back porch. I had plans of making a pie but, tiny fingers were in and out of them until there was just a cup or so left. I guess they will go in tomorrow's bowls of oatmeal. It was awesome to see the younger three trying to catch a lightning bug and the flash of memories of how many times I had done the same in the Mississippi summer. Tomorrow is a new day with new adventures I'm sure but, for today... It was one sensational Sunday. <br />
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The kids just finished the library page program at <a href="http://www.li.lib.ms.us/" target="_blank">Lee county Library</a> for home-educated students. Although the younger three look like they are dying they actually say they had a lot of fun. I could not believe that Little P actually was quiet and quite attentive through the four week program. They are so looking forward to all of the awesome things planned for the library. Big P is most excited about the Hunger Games lock in that will be in June. Ta Ta for now! <div>
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