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 Thinking about Learning, special needs, Journal on Jul 29th, 2007 3 Comments »
Varicella Zoster sounds like the surname of some evil foreign count, doesn’t it?
Also known as chickenpox, the disease has worked its deliberate way through our younger set of children and on Saturday, Aidan came down with it. We were hoping he wouldn’t, since he had received a targeted immunoglobulin injection when […]
Posted in Early Childhood, Thinking about Learning, special needs on Jul 21st, 2007 4 Comments »
Once at Early Intervention, a mom brought in her 2 year old for evaluation while Aidan was doing occupational therapy in the same room. The little boy was doing imaginary play with dinosaurs while his mom and the evaluator watched, and the EI higher-up, whoever it was, said “well, that’s age appropriate”. […]
Posted in Thinking about Learning, Transition Years on Jul 11th, 2007 5 Comments »
Sean, 14, saw me typing about college prep for my Catholic classical education e-group and asked “What’s a GPA?”
When I explained that it was a numerical average of one’s grades, he asked “What’s mine?” I told him that I didn’t really pay attention to marking grades until high […]
Posted in Big Picture, Transition Years, Plans and Ideas on Jul 8th, 2007 2 Comments »
Christine at Thinking Things Through has collected a bunch of planning posts in one place.
Also, Owl at Owl Flutter has a nice logbook for lollygaggers.
There is a possibility that Sean, may go to school not this year, but next year. At age 14, he is the oldest of my […]
Posted in recordkeeping, Plans and Ideas, Journal on Jun 7th, 2007 2 Comments »
Recently I have been feeling guilty about continually inflicting my boring journalling on the homeschooljournal community. On the other hand, the nice thing about blogs is that no one HAS to read it.
I have been trying to decide whether to change my mode of record-keeping for the summer. There […]
Posted in Plans and Ideas on Jun 3rd, 2007 1 Comment »
Faith at Dumb Ox Academy has put up a theme-oriented planning post for her 8 year old. That made me go look around for a Waldorf list of themes. I did find this Waldorf Homeschool site that I want to note so that I can look at it later when […]
Posted in organization, Journal on May 28th, 2007 2 Comments »
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 […]
Posted in Therapy, recordkeeping, special needs, Plans and Ideas, Journal on May 22nd, 2007 1 Comment »
Aidan was so focused at speech therapy today. He did a categorization game with magnets — food, animals, transportation, clothes, and home. The SLP phased really gracefully from giving him choices between two categories — is the apple a food or an animal? — towards letting him pick them out himself as he got to […]
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