Posted in Health and Family Systems, Transition Years on Aug 31st, 2007 5 Comments »
…. for a few days, to visit my parents who live up there. I’m taking Brendan but the rest of the kids will stay home with Kevin.
Prayers and good thoughts would be appreciated. I’m a bit torn…. looking forward to seeing my mom and dad who I haven’t seen since last year, […]
Posted in Thinking about Learning on Aug 28th, 2007 1 Comment »
JoVE and Steph made some good points about unschooling in the comment section of my last post. JoVE said:
Personally, I think that defining unschooling as no structure at all (which many do) is a misinterpretation of the term. As I see it “schooling” is a specific combination of things that include not only […]
Posted in Thinking about Learning on Aug 25th, 2007 3 Comments »
I noticed that Ragamuffin Rosie has me down as a Latin-centered homeschooler, and it probably describes what we do better than anything else would, but it made me smile because though we do put Latin close to the center of our curriculum, we rarely spend more than twenty minutes a day on it. […]
Posted in Journal on Aug 23rd, 2007 2 Comments »
Kieron made a volcano using the Young Scientist kit #6. He seems to really enjoy this approach, though I really need to be on top of things and have him actually read something alongside doing the project. However, this served its purpose of starting off the new year with a […]
Posted in Journal on Aug 18th, 2007 3 Comments »
I’m a Ravenclaw, according to this quiz.
I probably didn’t even need to take the test — considering that our family just spent an hour the Sunday morning I took the quiz, making breakfast and talking about Young Earth Creationism, bringing in Augustine, Aquinas, Einstein and Dawkins among others.
Hooray […]
Posted in Journal on Aug 14th, 2007 5 Comments »
Kevin bought a play dough kit for Aidan at Costco. The back story is that Aidan had gotten some playdough while he was at the hospital, and he loved playing with it and “putting it in the oven” (the little drawer in his bedside table).
Putting the food “in the oven”
Paddy […]
Posted in Journal on Aug 8th, 2007 2 Comments »
(Conversation overheard between Clare and Paddy:)
Clare:
Paddy, you look guilty.
Paddy, looking quickly down at his shirt-front and sides:
“How did you know?”
Posted in special needs on Aug 5th, 2007 6 Comments »
Kieron made this homemade slime, yesterday — it’s unusual for us to do project-based learning so I photo’d the whole procedure, happily feeling just a bit like Theresa:
He puts in the glue:
He has laid out the instruction sheet and all the supplies ahead of time, which is nice — I didn’t teach him to do […]
Posted in Journal on Aug 4th, 2007 No Comments »
Melanie is right, at least in my sample of boys…. Paddy would definitely take the cute little butterfly barrettes and make them battle each other. This is what he does with his Beanie Babies.
However, Paddy yesterday solemnly watched Barbie: The Twelve Dancing Princesses with a homeschool friend of his […]
Posted in Health and Family Systems, Journal on Aug 2nd, 2007 3 Comments »
Things have been slow around here. I started to try to write on the timeless question “How will unschooled children learn to deal with struggle and difficulty” but couldn’t get my thoughts to connect. But anyway, Ron already gave the secret.
I’ve been putting the house back in order […]
