Posted in Happy and Healthy Childhoods, Homeschooling and Education on Aug 11th, 2008 6 Comments »
It’s funny, but several people have expressed concern that my kids won’t “get any socialization” since I shut down my home daycare. As if seeing the same 4 kids every day in our house was any different from just having lots of siblings!
So, let’s see here. What have we done since we stopped daycare? Last […]
Posted in My own homeschooled life on Jul 27th, 2008 5 Comments »
Through Doc, I saw this Homeschool Debate.
From my perspective, I want to address a few thoughts that came up from that post.
They would not have seen these things, if I home schooled them, because they would only be seeing people just like them. They would only be exposed to people with the same family life, the same values, the […]
Posted in My own homeschooled life, Books on Jul 25th, 2008 2 Comments »
I should give you all a book post about children’s books, but I’ve been a somewhat bad mommy this week, and instead of reading a lot to my kids, I’ve devoured several adult books. Sitting in my hottub and reading is my new favorite way to end a day. And lying in bed with my […]
Posted in Homeschooling and Education on Jul 21st, 2008 4 Comments »
I had a chemistry professor once tell me that studying science was a progressive discovery of all the lies you’ve been told along the way. That, basically, to simplify things so that most people/kids can understand them, bits of the real truth have to get left out. That idea really stuck with me, and I’ve […]
Posted in Homeschooling and Education on Jul 17th, 2008 No Comments »
We are still using Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding by Nebel. I see some drawbacks to this program, however. The lesson plans are written in full-on, formal educationese, and I honestly don’t want to read that much to figure out what I’m supposed to do. I’d rather have a bulleted list of steps, because I’m […]
Posted in Homeschooling and Education on Jul 7th, 2008 3 Comments »
The 100-Species Challenge
I saw this challenge at Ragamuffin Rosies, and we have to do this one! The idea is to identify 100 plant species within walking distance of your house. We are going to have fun with this! I’ve created a page to keep track of our 100 species, and I’ll try to get some […]
Posted in Homeschooling and Education on Jun 27th, 2008 2 Comments »
You may have noticed that not many of my posts have been about homeschooling lately. That’s because we haven’t really been doing any school for the last few weeks. When I got sick, we didn’t do any school, and it doesn’t take long for habits and routines to get all messed up. I tried to […]
Posted in My own homeschooled life on Jun 18th, 2008 1 Comment »
J’ai manqué trop de classes. Je suis perdu sur mon travail.
Je n’irai classer plus.
Il y a eu six classes, et j’ai manqué quatre d’entre eux.
Peut-être je devrais acheter la pierre de Rosetta.
J’avais l’habitude Babelfish pour écrire ce poteau.
(I have decided to drop out of my French class, based on the fact that I had to […]
Posted in Homeschooling and Education on Jun 13th, 2008 2 Comments »
This week we began Kindergarten with science. I’ve decided to use Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding by Bernard Nebel, because why reinvent the wheel? It is comprehensive, and it’s based on contructivist educational theory. Although it’s designed for classroom use, I don’t see a problem adapting it for our purposes.
Carbon was very excited to start […]
Posted in RE, Domestic Bliss, Homeschooling and Education on Jun 9th, 2008 7 Comments »
I can finally tell you all about this, because everyone who needed to find out first hand has been told now. It’s very exciting- I have a new full-time job, as the Director of Religious Education at my Unitarian Universalist church. I’ve been feeling a tug on my heart-strings, calling me to do this work, […]
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