Tag Archive | homeschooling
9 Essential Skills Kids Should Learn
Have you seen my Unschooling page? It’s always easily accessible via the tab above. I think you will find some fascinating reading there, regardless of how you educate your children, and even if you have no kids at all. I just added a new article to the top of the page, and I don’t write [...]
2012 Project 365 Day 039
Today was a rainy day that did not inspire pictures. However, as the daylight faded I came up with the idea of shooting bedtime and including myself in the photo, something I want to do every week or two. We read together every night. Usually Ian chooses a book or three for me to read [...]
The ABCs of Unschooling
Thanks to my friend for forwarding this article to me. I have tried very little curriculum since I’ve had children (I did use it for five years before then, while teaching primary grades) so I did not experience a “great big hole on the plate,” but I have met many people who have yet to [...]
Back to (the wrong) school
I’ve been reading Seth Godin’s blog (via email subscription) for about a year, since someone suggested it online in a discussion about business productivity. I love his succinct articles, making it always possible to fit them into my busy day, and they almost always make me ponder. Today he has written about the state of [...]
9 1/2 Tips to Homeschool Math
As the summer is waning, I’m paying more attention to the homeschooling information and resources that come my way. Here’s a helpful and funny list written on a fantastic blog all about math. 9 1/2 Tips to Homeschool Math I like her idea that we should be focusing on numeracy just as much as literacy. [...]
How many books do you have?
I have over 1500 children’s books. I know because in the late 90s, I was teaching and, imagining the future children I hoped to have, collecting books mostly via the Scholastic book clubs I sent home with my students, and I created a database of all of ones I had then. They numbered 1500 then. [...]
The Future of Libraries (and maybe schools?)
I just read Seth Godin’s idea of The Future of Libraries and I like it. I am a long-time fan of libraries. Among my earliest memories are lunch periods in the library at my elementary school in California. The kids would be weaving with fat pieces of colorful yarn on cardboard looms or making crafts [...]
Project 365 Day 116
Tuesday I had an opportunity to play at being a photographer. I was asked to take pictures for our Pokemon Club for a homeschool group yearbook. I think I got some good ones and afterward I proudly realized I had used aperture priority most of the time, with little trouble. That is to say, I [...]
Project 365 Day 13 How we homeschool
For the last few weeks my kids were having marathon viewings of shows like Wizards of Waverly Place and pbskids’ Fetch! This week they’ve been asking to do math problems, cooking experiments, and reading practice. True, at the beginning of this week I instituted Kendzie Decree #1: Before doing anything on a screen, the following [...]
Project 365 Day 2
One of the books we have read many times, and we read again today, is The Gingerbread Man. I asked Ian if he’d like to make our own gingerbread man with the recipe on the back of the book. He stirred the dry ingredients and I did the rest. I don’t play around with my [...]
