Posted in Transition Years, Books on Aug 16th, 2008 3 Comments »
You know, I said I had requested Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior from the library. But I was mistaken. It was Kevin who requested it from my card. I couldn’t remember where I had heard the book mentioned, so I knew I recognized the title but was puzzled […]
Posted in Books on Apr 23rd, 2008 Comments Off
I finished reading City Kid. It was mostly an account of how Mary MacCracken, who wrote the book, went back to school to get a degree in order to continue working with troubled children in the city. The pointlessness and bureaucratic tyranny of her college experience was described in juxtaposition with […]
Posted in Books on Apr 13th, 2008 Comments Off
It’s been quite a while since I did a “What We’re Reading” so I thought I’d do one now.
I have been reading quite a bit recently. On Sunday when we traveled to Thomas Aquinas College I read Last Man Down — one of the dime library rack grabs […]
Posted in Thinking about Learning, Books on Nov 25th, 2007 5 Comments »
At the Real Learning board, a mom with young children asked what older homeschooling moms would do differently if they could it over again.
Really, I have few categorical regrets about what I did or did not do. Yes, I made plenty of mistakes — but mistakes can be fruitful. I learned […]
Posted in Books, Journal on Sep 13th, 2007 4 Comments »
I should probably have mentioned it before, but life quickly got quite busy …. I put some photos of our trip here.
Now that homeschooling season is here, most of my online time seems to be going to my learning-notes journal, Schola et Studium.
What I’ve been doing, besides normal daily-life-and-homeschooling:
Re-reading Latin Centered Curriculum, […]
Posted in Books, Journal on Apr 10th, 2007 1 Comment »
We have been on holiday; my oldest is at home and goes back to college in a couple of days. As he says, in a month he’ll be halfway through his college undergrad years!
The kids played Settlers of Catan yesterday after we got home from Easter Mass and family festivities. They were […]
Posted in Literacy and Language, Books on Mar 25th, 2007 1 Comment »
I wrote several posts with notes on Mel Levine’s Myth of Laziness on my other blog. I’m going to list them here because I thought it might be of interest to some of the homeschooljournal community too.
The Myth of Laziness
Writing difficulties
Project Checklists
When I wrote about Laziness once before on here, I tried […]
Posted in special needs, Transition Years, Books, Journal on Mar 24th, 2007 1 Comment »
Quick catch-up:
Our friends left today.
Thursday:
While Kevin and I drove to TAC to pick up the 3 prospective college students on Thursday, our middle boys stayed with their friends and watched a couple more hours of Liberty. WE got back pretty late — got to see Liam and the 3 young people talked us through […]
Posted in special needs, Books, Journal on Feb 21st, 2007 1 Comment »
I had several phone calls to make on this morning and in the afternoon Aidan had an appointment in town, so it was an errand day. We did have pancakes!
Karen E has some wonderful Lenten posts and links.
Maybe you can tell this will be a scattered post — like my brain right now after 150 […]
Posted in Books on Jan 2nd, 2007 2 Comments »
Homeschool Parent Book Club
I thought I would try to get some notes down about my book discussion reading while everything is still quiet around here.
“And the Skylark Sings with Me” is a line from a William Blake poem called The Schoolboy. Incidentally, I think William Blake must have been a classic right-brained […]
