Posted in Thinking about Learning, Living and learning on Jul 19th, 2008 Comments Off
Someone on a list that I am on linked to Alfie Kohn’s “Five Reasons to Stop Saying, “Good Job.“
It is an interesting read. There is a book I read called “When Slow is Fast Enough” that describes very convincingly the way that praise and positive talk is used to manipulate and control small […]
Posted in Journal on Jul 19th, 2008 Comments Off
Liam has been asking if Clare and I would try to play parts on a Mozart piece he found (I don’t know the name but it’s a very recognizable one). It has three parts.
We actually have five guitars in the house — two acoustic, but three classical…. mine, and two that my […]
Posted in Journal on Jul 18th, 2008 2 Comments »
These “homeschool moments” are actually rather rare, so I thought I would memorialize one : ).
I was digging through old stuff and found a National Geographic planet diagram that I thought Aidan would like, because he has been in love with Saturn for the longest time. So I […]
Posted in Journal on Jul 17th, 2008 1 Comment »
Homeschooling Carnival up at Red Sea Homeschool.
The heading quote is
Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. ~Sam Keen
Funny — I should make that our motto this summer, though we haven’t been lazy precisely; just very quiet. No camps except for football camp; no real learning enrichment; in fact, very little traveling at […]
Posted in Journal on Jul 11th, 2008 Comments Off
They are cutting down trees across the street. Nothing like a 50 foot sugar pine crashing to the ground to shake the house. Aidan has been delighted.
We drove down to our weekly homeschool meeting, but it had been cancelled — probably a good thing, because the air was bitter and dull […]
Posted in Journal on Jul 10th, 2008 1 Comment »
I thought I would try to get back into the habit of journalling the day here. I’ve gotten away from it because of being in “big picture” mode recently, but now I want to pay attention more consciously to what’s going on around here.
For one thing, it’s been HOT, as I mentioned. […]
Posted in Literacy and Language on Jul 10th, 2008 3 Comments »
Most of my best (most successful) resolutions are laterals…. that is, they appear sideways or in reverse rather than in a forward direction. I suddenly decide to just start doing X, or find I have already been doing Y and then it’s easy to continue. When I plan to accomplish […]
