Tag: homeschool
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Success! Accomplished something this week!
Success! Well, something of note accomplished this week. Got H.o.p.’s new-old (my old one) computer up and running and pretty much all spic and span ready for him. Powerful enough (for now) for what he’s doing. Kind of. Maybe. We’ll see. Poor kid needs a new monitor. His is making click click click sounds now…
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I am not the sun
Today we attempt to get H.o.p. to let us work on his computer. We are likely to fail though he is aware his is out of memory and needs to be upgraded and get a new video card. Oh, Marty walks in and says he’s paying H.o.p. to come with him to the studio to…
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Should I feel guilty about not seeing the point in making a rain gauge?
Damn it’s the end of August already. I want a vacation! We knew one wouldn’t be happening in September this year though so I’ve committed us to some acting classes for H.o.p. He’s not interested in acting but he’s interested in the process. Kind of. He is looking forward to it. I think he has…
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Vetoed
I’d chosen a Nova piece on volcanoes for tonight’s viewing pleasure. It showed briefly people fleeing the eruption of a volcano, the soles of their feet burned through, and stacks of dead bodies. H.o.p.: You’re my mom, you’re not supposed to show me things like that. It’s too disturbing for an eight-year-old to see. Enough…
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My parental duty for the evening
My parental duty for the day has been locating old pipe organ music on the net for H.o.p. He wanted to hear and we don’t have a turntable to play the several albums of Italian, German and English renaissance organ music that we used to have which got all scratched up and are either in…
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OK, so I've read up on Netflix and throttling…
H.o.p. woke up sick and has been down for the count all day. Marty’s out being filmed for a BBC documentary (I’ll describe later). Oh, here comes H.o.p. now. And I’ve been reading about Netflix and throttling. Will we end up being disappointed in Netflix as well? Probably. Because I’m a new customer may be…
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Well, we shall see how this works
Despite some of the things I’ve read, I went ahead and got a Netflix subscription. We don’t have cable, the movie rental places closest to us are very slim on anything but current flicks, and I wanted to make available to H.o.p. documentaries/educational DVDs without having to purchase them. We must be very dull people…
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Just getting new materials for H.o.p. in line for the year, that's all I'm doing
Books, books and more books. That’s what I’ve been up to. Ordering books for H.o.p. for this coming year. Math books and history books and science books. Books, books and more books. And plenty of books now waiting in the Wish List for ordering later. I never know what’s going to catch H.o.p.’s interest. Unexpectedly,…
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Fernbank Science Center – What we learned at the Planetarium today (3 views)
Pond at the Fernbank Science Center It’s a fairly nice small pond to sit beside for a little while. In this case after viewing the show at the Planetarium today which was on the stars of summer in our hemisphere (difficult to follow via just a sometimes too quickly moving pointer) with some information also…
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The paper skeleton that is actually essential text in some college courses–well, at least one
Re my post the other day on putting together this paper skeleton for H.o.p., an exercise in frustration, and then finding that the same book, “Cut and Make a Human Skeleton” is an essential textbook for Anatomy and Physiology I at Ol Miss in the class of a Dr. Denis Goulet and being floored by…
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I spent my day stitching paper bones together with artificial sinew
The world is falling apart and here I am performing the essential duty of stitching paper bones together. However did that come to pass? Yesterday we’d planned another excursion to North Georgia, but H.o.p. was slow slow slow to get going, so slow that by the time we instead arrived at the Fernbank Science Center…
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"It’s a protist, not a plant!" (H.o.p.’s indignant)
H.o.p. is furious. It has become a major source of contention for H.o.p. that so many children’s PBS shows and computer learning programs refer to algae as a plant. “Algae is not a plant, it’s a protist!” he says. “It’s a Big Big World” called algae a plant. H.o.p. yelled, “Algae is not a plant,…