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World History vs Acorn 101

I have confessed to you that we are very relaxed in my home. Some people might even say that we are lazy. Well, my daughter must have agreed with "some people" because the other day she told me that she wanted to do real…
Dragons and Rockets and Pi, Oh My!

I attended a Homeschool 101 meeting for new homeschoolers and I was blown away by some of the observations and examples of "interest driven learning" and "child directed" learning and how allowing a child to follow his p…
Reading is addictive and I am an addict

I was just thinking today, as my seven year old and I cuddled up on the couch with a boring first grade reader, how reading is contagious and addictive. For most of my adult life I read only to get information, inspira…
reading for fun and by force - dissection lab and eyeballs!!!

The weather was so nice today that we all did school either outside on the picnic table or in the swing. My daughter andI sat together on the swing and read our books that we bought at Hastings last. She’s arelucta…
Coffee thoughts - multiple ages in the learning environment

This morning my son and I were playing around on the internet. Actually, he had woken up and crawled in my lap while I was reading about Eva Braun. Ihad a dream last night about her children surviving….somethingabout a…
Converting Fahrenheit to Celcius (turned into a rant on democratic schools)

My children andI have a little game that we play whenever we get in the car. When I start the engine we all look up to seewhat the temperature is in Fahrenheit and then everyone guesses what the…
Fun with Plastics!

While playing around with trash and plastics in preparation for my daughter's art classes we accidentally created something I thought was beautiful. I never thought of trash as art! Good thing we recycle we have so …
Teaching Reading IS NOT Rocket Science!

I remember watching a program on PBS about teaching children to read. One statement that stuck out was “teaching reading IS rocket science…” Good thing I didn’t have a mouth full of liquids at the time. I thought i…
Greek and Latin Roots Binders

All we did this week for “school” was start on our Greek andLatin Roots binders. We are using "English from the Roots Up"as our guide. (Youcan find a list of common Greek and Latin roots on the internet and usethat …
Mom’s Show and Tell for the 2006-2007 school year:

Matthan: Matthan has played soccer for our city’s soccer organization since he was 6 years old. He made the select team this year and they won regionals and got second in state. He also picked up tennis a…