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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘math’
Feb
27
Toddler Smarts on Display
by heather
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
19
Thoughts on Unschooling and “Holes”
by heather
Recently I responded on a homeschooling messageboard to a query about unschooling. A mom was contemplating homeschooling her kids, and was intrigued by the idea of unschooling, but concerned about the possibility of missing certain things if her kids didn’t happen to learn them. Things like division. My reply garnered an “excellent post” response… so [...]
Tags: benezet, charlotte mason, curriculum, division, eclectic, education, egypt, elementary, Greece, Homeschooling, math, public school, unschooling
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Posted in Homeschooling | Comments (15)
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)
Feb
04
Square Roots by Narrowing Down
by heather
Today we learned square roots in our math lesson. I loved the approach — this is RightStart Math, level E. No big repetitive worksheets to practice it. Just “what’s 8 squared?” “That’s 64.” “Okay, the square root of 64 is 8.” “Oooooohhhh!” “So, what’s the square root of 81?” “That’s 9!!” “Great! Let’s play some [...]
Tags: child-led, decimals, fractions, Homeschooling, math, right, square roots
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