The is the motto of The Diosa Dotada Endeavor. This month, anyway. Every event that takes place these days must follow a strict, analytical procedure as dictated by Kindy Girl. Identify the issue. Observe the current state of affairs. Formulate a hypothesis. Test the hypothesis. Observe the effects of the test. If necessary, adjust the […]
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The Chicago Tribune is running an article about a young lady who has recently been accepted to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Northwestern, Standford and University of Chicago and has been homeschooled since she was five years old. The homeschool listservs are all a twitter with her story. I am excited for her, really […]
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For all my rhetoric, there is one reason I have such a fiery passion for homeschooling that I rarely mention in most conversations on the topic. I usually only share it with other homeschooling parents who express that they too harbor the same sweet secret. As I continue to construct our 2008-09 biology curriculum from […]
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Hello, my name is Obsessive Homeschooling Mom. And I am a Curriculum Junkie. As we work through the material on hand, I am always on the look out for the next step. For months I have been reviewing sources for our next steps in science and history. As we are planning to follow the general scope and sequence […]
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Crunchy Mama waxes philisophical from her happy Texas home where she resides in matrimonial bliss with Patris Maximus and the Triad of Chaos: the ring leader, Athena, and her devoted twin followers, Apollo and Artemis