If there are any speech-language pathologists who read this blog, please know I am by no means attacking the profession. I just am mentioning this because I always seem to be writing negatively in this area. Aidan’s speech therapist is conscientious and seems to know her field well. I think probably Aidan is a particularly [...]
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 never-schooled kids. The older [...]
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 is this article on Unschooling [...]
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 I have access to my [...]
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 [...]
Clean-up day today. I am in laundry mode since Liam is coming home this week and I want to wash his sheets and blankets. Plus we had three loads from our Goodwill ventures yesterday. I am almost caught up now. Sean did his work: ( ) Mathematics ( ) Latin ( ) Story of the [...]
Planning for next year — looking up file folder games mostly for the little ones, but I think Kieron might like helping me with some of these too. File Folder Games – collection of links. Some more from Enchanted Learning. A weather theme. A book: Instant File Folder Games for Reading. And for Math Grades [...]
This will be another rambling post about organization. I started this blog originally to keep track of the moments and the patterns of life. It is so easy for me to just wander through my life, wrapped up in my thought processes, hardly noticing anything else. My French teacher used to say I was “dans [...]
Things to love, do and think about this week: Spring — the outdoors — all that is going on out there –“Let children] once get touch (sic) with nature, and a habit is formed which will be a source of delight through his life.” –Home Education, pg. 61 Aidan’s “learning to read through writing” project [...]
I am going to stream consciousness about this past year and how it’s gone in terms of homeschooling. I started this blog almost a year ago while I was experimenting with “total unschooling”. I wanted a way to record and reflect upon what was happening in our days. I continued this during the summer. I [...]
