Category: Homeschool

  • Global Celebration (Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2020)

    Global Celebration (Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2020)

    I’m pleased as punch to participate in Multicultural Children’s Book Day again this year. Little Man was tickled when our friendly mailman delivered this vibrant picture book– and just in time for Chinese New Year! (We received it as a complimentary gift in exchange for our honest review.) An inclusive, celebratory tome highlighting a cornucopia…

  • Semester Symposium

    Semester Symposium

    In preparation for a proper Christmas holiday, we’re putting a bow on our studies*, wrapping up* the first semester of our seventh (unless you count preschool, in which case it’s our ninth) homeschool year. Tomorrow I submit grades and confer with our facilitator from the online charter school under whose umbrella two-thirds of my pupils…

  • Book Club

    Book Club

    The first rule about Book Club is… you don’t stop talking about Book Club. I went and joined an actual big-girl book club, you guys. I’m pleased to report that I did indeed finish the first book on time and show up for the in-person discussion. This is what we read the first go-round: This is How is…

  • Homeschool High

    Homeschool High

    It’s back to school tiiiiiime! Though we maintain a daily reading, writing, & arithmetic regimen through the summer months, we ramp things up in earnest and resume extracurriculars each fall– like reg’lar folk. This year I’m teaching a 2nd grader, a 7th grader, and a HIGHSCHOOL FRESHMAN at home. I never suspected I’d still be homeschooling…

  • Summer FOMO

    Summer FOMO

    About mid-summer, my much older sister and I drafted a master list of allllll the adventures we’d yet to endeavor before her critters headed back to traditional school. She called it a bucket list– I dubbed it the FOMO list. With haste, we redoubled our efforts and squeezed an insane amount of summery fun into…

  • Midsummer Photo Flood

    Midsummer Photo Flood

    I blinked and it’s August. Our summer’s been so blessedly full that we’ve scarcely had time to catch our breath. Thank goodness for modern conveniences like camera phones– the following’s our mid-summer photograph deluge, for nostalgia’s sake. Now excuse us while we wring the last bits of fun from the last remaining weeks of summer.…

  • Bookstagram

    Bookstagram

    “Sleep is good. And books are better.” – George R.R. Martin Word. And I’ve decided that if George Martin can double his middle initial ‘R’ ala J. R. R. Tolkien, then imma do the same with mine… Henceforth, you can call this nerdy bookworm Mia R. R. White The following’s a list of my most…

  • A More Perfect Union

    A More Perfect Union

    There’s nothing like a holiday weekend cohabitating with extended family to insure domestic tranquility and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. To celebrate our nation’s 243 years of independence, my mom and her partner booked a vacation rental at the coast and invited their collective offspring to join them in star-spangled…

  • A New England, Maritime Tour (our bonus vacay)

    A New England, Maritime Tour (our bonus vacay)

    When Husband was plotting our literary pilgrimage to Prince Edward Island, he quickly discovered that direct flights to the island were pretty spendy. Flying into Halifax, Nova Scotia, from where we could take the ferry over, would be considerably less costly; and cheaper still were flights out of major hub Logan International in Boston. When…