Today is the Big Change — we’ve wrapped up several topics for now, and I’m implementing a much more Waldorf-inspired block. Form drawing is the focus for the next two weeks, starting from grade 1 and moving more quickly than the 7-year-olds would through the basic forms.
We actually started a little form drawing — just [...]
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Nov
16
The Big Day – Trying a New Schedule
by heather
Tags: blocks, form drawing, homeschool, main lesson, scheduling, story, Waldorf
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Sep
10
Homeschool Buyer’s Co-op
by heather
I’ve just joined the Homeschool Buyer’s Co-op. It’s a non-profit organization that provides educational discounts and “group buys” to its members that are often not available to homeschoolers, because we buy individually rather than as a group. It’s free to join and there are many freebies and extras too.
Since I’ve only just joined, I’m not [...]
Mar
19
Busy, Busy Day Part I: School Time
by heather
Today was just the kind of day where lots of little things happened, one after the other. So much so that I can’t bear to put it all in one post, so today’s post is a multi-parter!
Flipper was going to a friend’s house at lunchtime today, so he did most of his schoolwork this morning. [...]
Tags: charlotte mason, daily grams, homeschool, hyperkinetic, math, science
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Mar
11
New Carnival of Homeschooling
by heather
The latest Carnival of Homeschooling is up, and while I didn’t submit a post this week (we’ve been sick around here so I haven’t done much blogging), I’m still looking forward to reading a ton of great posts from other blogs!
I’m particularly looking forward to Home is Where You Start From’s look at Homer’s Odyssey. [...]
Tags: archaeology, blog, carnival, charlotte mason, cooking, egypt, Greece, history, Homer, homeschool, Montessori, Odyssey, StumbleUpon, toddlers
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Posted in Family, Homeschooling, Random Musings | Comments (1)
Mar
06
Come Visit Flipper’s Blog
by heather
My son Flipper has just launched his very own blog. He’s got a simple little welcome post up now. We’ll be checking out other blogs by homeschooled kids, please check out his!
Feb
27
Toddler Smarts on Display
by heather
Here’s how Pomme has been showing off her developing smarts this week:
According to her, the one on the bottom is a cat, the one at the very top is a pig, and the rest are whales. The spots are eyes. She has labelled her drawings before (usually as whales lol), and she has drawn circles, [...]
Tags: art, digits, drawing, homeschool, math, Montessori, patterns, quantity, representation, self-determination, sorting, symbol, unschooling
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Posted in Family, Homeschooling, Kid stuff | Comments (0)
Feb
27
School is Not for Socializing — Out of the Mouths of Public Schoolers!
by heather
I just read this blog post, by a high school teacher struggling with a severely disabled child in her classroom who is very disruptive. His aide is apparently not on the ball, he gets into fights, screams through classes so other students cannot hear the teacher.
This teacher is quite rightly questioning the whole rationale behind [...]
Tags: education, homeschool, public school, special needs, teachers, unschool
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Posted in Homeschooling | Comments (8)
Feb
24
Video: My 2-year-old Can Crack Eggs– Montessori, Practical Life, and Cooking Skills
by heather
As I’ve mentioned before, we are following a Montessori-inspired philosophy with Pomme’s toddlerhood. Following her interests, she has ample opportunity to learn through self-motivated exploration. At this age, the emphasis is more on “Practical Life” skills than on ‘academics.’ She learns primarily through observation, imitation, and experimentation, as indeed human beings are designed to learn!
There [...]
Tags: baking, cooking, education, eggs, homeschool, Montessori, natural learning, practical life, preschool, toddler
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Posted in Family, Homeschooling, Kid stuff | Comments (1)
Feb
10
A Charlotte Mason Shift
by heather
Today was day 2 of our new, Charlotte Mason-inspired schoolday. I’d meant to blog about the plans for this whole thing, the reasons and rationales and ideas and all that, before actually starting it. But, ya know, life and busy-ness and all that stuff. The actual planning took up any spare time I might have [...]
Tags: charlotte mason, curriculum, homeschool, math, narration
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Posted in Family, Homeschooling | Comments (2)
Feb
06
Curriculum (and Other Stuff) for Sale…
by heather
If anyone is interested, I’ve got a few books I’d like to sell. Everything is located in Canada, I’ll ship to the US if you pay for the shipping costs of course. Cat-friendly, non-smoking home. I’ve offered these on homeschool forums ad nauseum with no takers. Honestly, I’d just like to get rid of [...]
Tags: baby book, birthing from within, books, curriculum, easy grammar, homeschool, math, RightStart, sale, Saxon, sears, second-hand, slings, spelling, Teaching Textbooks, used
Posted in Babywearing, Homeschooling, Random Musings | Comments (0)
Posted in Babywearing, Homeschooling, Random Musings | Comments (0)
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