Posted in Thinking about Learning, special needs, Journal on Jul 29th, 2007 3 Comments »
Varicella Zoster sounds like the surname of some evil foreign count, doesn’t it?
Also known as chickenpox, the disease has worked its deliberate way through our younger set of children and on Saturday, Aidan came down with it. We were hoping he wouldn’t, since he had received a targeted immunoglobulin injection when […]
Posted in Early Childhood, Thinking about Learning, special needs on Jul 21st, 2007 4 Comments »
Once at Early Intervention, a mom brought in her 2 year old for evaluation while Aidan was doing occupational therapy in the same room. The little boy was doing imaginary play with dinosaurs while his mom and the evaluator watched, and the EI higher-up, whoever it was, said “well, that’s age appropriate”. […]
Posted in Journal on Jul 19th, 2007 1 Comment »
Owl at Owl Flutter tagged me for a morphed version of the Eight Things meme. The new meme’s rules:
Rules:
1. You have to post these rules before you give the facts.
2. Players, you must list one fact that is somehow relevant to your life for each letter […]
Posted in Thinking about Learning, Transition Years on Jul 11th, 2007 5 Comments »
Sean, 14, saw me typing about college prep for my Catholic classical education e-group and asked “What’s a GPA?”
When I explained that it was a numerical average of one’s grades, he asked “What’s mine?” I told him that I didn’t really pay attention to marking grades until high […]
Posted in Early Childhood, Living and learning on Jul 10th, 2007 2 Comments »
Paddy says, “I want to have TEN sausages.”
Aidan says, “I beat Michigan Viejo.”
I am struck by how at this pre-academic stage, the accuracy is not the important thing for the children. I explain to Paddy that if everyone got 10 sausages, we would have to make 90 sausages for breakfast. […]
Posted in Big Picture, Transition Years, Plans and Ideas on Jul 8th, 2007 2 Comments »
Christine at Thinking Things Through has collected a bunch of planning posts in one place.
Also, Owl at Owl Flutter has a nice logbook for lollygaggers.
There is a possibility that Sean, may go to school not this year, but next year. At age 14, he is the oldest of my […]
Posted in Journal on Jul 7th, 2007 No Comments »
I’m going to move my Learning Notes over to my Schola et Studium blog. So if you are a reader who is mostly interested in those academic play-by-plays, please change your bookmarks : ).
They were getting a bit clunky over here along with the unschool-journal type entries. […]
Posted in Literacy and Language, Early Childhood on Jul 6th, 2007 No Comments »
For the past month or so Paddy has been telling me to trace the words with my finger as I read aloud to him. It’s funny because I clearly remember John Holt writing that he once thought to be helpful and educational by doing this while reading to a 3 year old girl, […]
Posted in Big Picture, Journal on Jul 5th, 2007 1 Comment »
Maybe I’ll stick with this PressRow presentation for longer than I’ve been staying with other templates recently. You can customize the header, and that’s nice. The one on there now is of Slea Head. That was one of the most beautiful places we went to on our […]
Posted in Big Picture on Jul 3rd, 2007 3 Comments »
I went back to this day a year ago to see what was on my mind back then and um, try to figure out what to write about now. I’m having such a hard time getting back to regular blogging after the break!
It looks like back then we had just gotten our […]
