I missed you, my little homeschool journal! Thank you, Ron and Andrea, for restoring the HSJ system on top of everything else going on in your lives. Lots has been happening here in the high Sierra spring. Nothing major, just many little sparkles on the surface of the stream. But I will have to update [...]
I am trying to move into project mode for summer. Today I went through the big box of papers — schoolwork, internet print-outs, notebooks and so on — which I normally keep in a big box under my office table. It took most of the morning, while I sat with the teens and listened to [...]
I uploaded these checklists to help get us through the next few weeks before we phase into summer. Weekly chart for Kieron (year 5) Weekly chart for Sean (year 8 ) Aidan’s Therapy Sheet Paddy seems to be catching the literacy motivation bug. Yesterday evening he spent a lot of time scribbling on old post-it [...]
When I feel logistically disoriented, I make an organizing book. It really seems to help get me back on the ground. Around Christmas-time, I read a lot about Visual Spatial learners and learned a lot about the way I think. One thing that helped was realizing that I don’t move well through time sequence. I [...]
Because thinking about it is better than just ignoring it completely. Here’s a homeschool planning checklis: As Cozy as Spring plans. Here are Knotty Pines’ Academy cleaning checklists: Day One Day Two Day Three Maybe now that I’ve put these on my blog, my house and homeschool will get organized by osmosis, and I [...]
I blew the Internet Regula right after I made it public…. sigh. That always seems to happen. Anyway, I spend a long time writing a post about unschooling on my other blog. IT did help clarify my thoughts but that’s also a good rationalization for spending EVERY day typing for an hour in [...]
I have been experimenting with visual/spatial type charts to see if they are effective tools for my right brained learners. I just made another chart for my 11 and 13yo boys. The one I made for Aidan has really helped him. Y’know, I never actually presented it to him. I put it up on the [...]
