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Sep
04

A Grand Unified Theory of Homeschooling

by heather

I’ve been thinking quite a bit lately about different educational philosophies.  From the typical public school curriculum and methodologies, or “school-at-home” homeschooling, to Charlotte Mason, Waldorf, Thomas Jefferson, Montessori, lapbooking, notebooking, earth-schooling, unschooling, Classical education… there is so much variety.  And in my research and learning over the years, there is something of value in [...]

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Sep
03

Keeping Us On Our Toes: The Best Laid Plans of Unschooling

by heather

I’m pretty sure I’ve posted before about how whatever we plan for our kids, they’ll turn things all topsy turvy and surprise us.   In our case, it’s how I overdid early academics with my son, forcing him to do lots of workbooks (and yes, I do mean *forcing*) when he was far too young [...]

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Sep
03

From the Mouths of Babes: Math Funny

by heather

My daughter Pomme just told me she wanted two more cookies, and I said “sure, help yourself.”  She loudly proclaimed, “that will make THREE cookies!” — because she had already had one a little while ago. Jumping on the chance to practice some addition in a ‘natural’ fashion (since she herself brought it up), I [...]

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Jun
09

Life of Fred Math: Just a Matter of Time

by heather

Time. One of the greatest benefits of homeschooling is that when we need to, we can just take some time. About a year or so ago, I bought the Life of Fred: Fractions book, much to Flipper’s chagrin.  More math!??  This was an atrocity! Until I started to read the first chapter to him… and [...]

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Mar
26

Tot School Weekly Update

by heather

Pomme is 39 months old Okay, I wasn’t going to get into this whole “Tot School” thing, since we’re not really doing all that much in terms of formal schooling.  But, she did a few really cool things this week, and I know that “Tot School” isn’t supposed to necessarily mean “formal schooling” anyway, so [...]

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Nov
07

Autumn Session Update

by heather

I was just reviewing my previous post where I summarized what we’d accomplished in our first 6 weeks of a Charlotte Mason approach.  That was back in March.  It was fascinating to look back at what we’ve changed, what we’ve maintained, where we’ve stalled and where we’ve progressed. One big change is that I stopped [...]

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Sep
09

Not Back to School Today!

by heather

Today was back-to-school day for kids across our province.  While most every other family with school-aged children was getting up early, packing new bookbags, rushing over breakfast, running out the door to catch the bus… while moms were missing their babies (whether off for the first time or the twelfth) within a few hours of [...]

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Mar
22

First Session Wrap-up: Our First Six Weeks of Charlotte Mason

by heather

We’ve come to the end of our first session of homeschooling with a Charlotte Mason approach.  I decided to follow the idea of organizing 6-week session blocks according to the TangleWood School‘s suggestions.  At the end of the session, we compare what we’ve done with what we’ve planned and see what adjustments might need to [...]

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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 [...]

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Mar
15

Happy Pi Day!

by heather

Of course, today was Pi Day, or 3.14 on the calendar.  As a certified math geek, I think this is just an amazing idea. Flipper has been asking about pi quite a bit recently… he wanted to know what it was, what it meant, and he wanted to know how far I had it memorized.  [...]

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