Posted in Journal on May 10th, 2008 1 Comment »
For someone who has expressed reservations about testing I am sure doing a fair amount of it. Sean is making his way through the Spectrum Practice Tests for grade 8 and today I was working with Clare on her Grubel SAT practice book.
I actually don’t really have a philosophical […]
Posted in Journal on May 8th, 2008 1 Comment »
JoVE at Tricotomania wrote in More on History:
I like the way that whenever Steph writes a planning post and you click on links to her planning forms she has book lists not only for each of her kids but also for herself. This post is in that spirit — book ideas for adults who may […]
Posted in Journal on May 7th, 2008 3 Comments »
I meant to write a bit yesterday but got caught up in other things. So I’m timestamping it for yesterday, Wednesday, though actually writing on Thursday.
Wednesday was an “at-home” day, which was nice. We did casual academics in the morning. We spent the afternoon dragging old bikes from […]
Posted in Therapy, special needs, Journal on May 6th, 2008 1 Comment »
“What are you doing, Aidan?”
“Trying to swim like a frog.”
Loved this post by Rosie at Dragons in the Flowerbed.
It seems to sum up a lot about homeschooling.
Another neat post about homeschooling at Knitting the Wind.
When I am facing the school IEP, as I am now, and its preliminaries, […]
Posted in Journal on May 5th, 2008 1 Comment »
Over this weekend the kids ventured into the spidery outside basement and brought out bikes and helmets. These have been put away for several years. We can’t even remember how long, but I think it was about seven years ago when Aidan was still in and out of hospitals a lot.
The bikes […]
Posted in Journal on May 4th, 2008 2 Comments »
Paddy now is to be thought of as “Paddy the Hero.” As in “Mom, Paddy the Hero wants an apple. Can he have one?”
I just love the five year old boy stage.
CS Lewis was about that age when according to his older brother, he marched up to his mother, pointed at […]
Posted in Journal on May 4th, 2008 2 Comments »
From The Charlotte Mason Carnival
I really liked this post on different forms of narration.
I have read many discussions online about what to do for children who don’t yet understand how to narrate or who are resistant to it. Lots of people have lots of neat suggestions about how to vary narrations which include everything from […]
Posted in Journal on May 3rd, 2008 2 Comments »
I enjoyed tribeofautodidact’s post on planning next year with her 9 year old son. I started to comment over there, and it got so long I decided to write it over here instead. But there are some interesting comments in the box, as well, if you visit over there.
Leonie at Living […]
Posted in Journal on May 2nd, 2008 1 Comment »
The whole quote, from Bertrand Russell:
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the […]
Posted in Links on May 1st, 2008 1 Comment »
