December 1st, 2008 at 9:08am |
In an effort to tempt Athena out of semi-permanent residence in Ancient Egypt and on to further Ancient History exploration, I began reading Mary Pope Osborne’s retelling of The Odyssey at bedtime a few weeks ago to the entire Triad of Chaos. I must confess I did shamelessly use my maternal influence. I got Athena hooked on the story […]
Read the rest of Little Sponges: How to Accidentally Homeschool Your Two Year Old
October 15th, 2008 at 9:31pm |
Not homeschooling in general, but the form in which you’ve been doing it. You children wake up on an ordinary Tuesday morning and suddenly what was working before now produces fights and tears, power struggles and anything but passionate learning. This is one of the beautiful elements of homeschooling. Your children (and their teacher) do […]
Read the rest of Sometime You Just Have To Chuck It All Straight Out the Window
September 4th, 2008 at 10:45pm |
You’re a regular guy, driving home for lunch to your regular house in the ‘burbs in your regular company car. You turn down your cul-de-sac in your regular new construction neighborhood and suddenly something looks decidedly irregular. A large gaggle of school aged kids and a handful of mothers (one of which you think is […]
Read the rest of Picture It If You Will
August 20th, 2008 at 9:56pm |
Recently, the question of whether or not to carve out dedicated space for a classroom in the home of a homeschooling family has crossed my field of observation in multiple places at once. This is most likely a result of the inevitable “Back to School” type topics that are floating through disscussion boards, email lists and […]
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June 15th, 2008 at 8:19am |
This week we begin our next cycle. I’ve begun using the word cycle to describe the sections of our homeschooling calendar. Since we school year round, taking a week or two off here and there, referring to the school year seemed incorrect to me. So I’m going with cycle to describe how we do things. […]
Read the rest of I Love It When A Plan Comes Together
May 5th, 2008 at 9:36am |
In honor of our shifting curriculum plans and Kindy Girl’s near completion of most of our Kindergarten work, I have decided to update everyone’s (except mine) blog names on both blogs. Sooo…
By official decree:
Kindy Girl will hereafter be refered to as Athena, Goddess of Wisdom
The Master of Destruction will hereafter be refered to as Apollo, […]
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April 22nd, 2008 at 10:35pm |
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 […]
Read the rest of Pinnacle of Homeschool Success?
February 6th, 2008 at 2:45pm |
I remember when Kindy Girl began really chasing new knowledge. It was exhillarating for both of us. She would root out new discoveries and devour new information with reckless abandon. I would delight in presenting each new topic and watching the experience unfold. Lost in the mire of a year and a half of diapering and […]
Read the rest of And So It Begins…
February 6th, 2008 at 2:26pm |
After recovering from almost two weeks of illness, we are finally on the go again. We are way behind where I thought we’d be in terms of book learning at this point, but considering how young Kindy Girl is and how firmly I believe in a mostly child-led sort of program, it does not really […]
Read the rest of Too Busy To Bother With School
January 3rd, 2008 at 1:14pm |
At home, I am planning now for the end of Kindergarten through spring and summer, as well as, the beginning of First Grade next autumn and winter. It will be a little while before I start puirchasing any First Grade spines, so for now that planning focuses on general concepts only. It is also dependent […]
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