October 19, 2009 – 12:12 am
First-year college performance:
A study of home school graduates and traditional school graduates
Okay Kids, Time For Bedlam
unstructured structure
September 22, 2009 – 1:50 pm
A typical day in the life over at All About (My) Boys: tossing a few things
A lovely photo journal of what looks like an incredible educational trip over at Growing Urban Wildflowers:
“…or, there and back again”
A great post about a duck and a boy over at Life-Led-Learning: Wild Duck Rescue
A review of a book [...]
August 20, 2009 – 10:20 pm
Rainbow Sticks: About siblings and how they grow.
A New School Year: About, surprisingly, a new school year as unschoolers.
I know there are some others out there that I missed–if you see a great one post it in the comments please (including if it is your own).
August 13, 2009 – 3:30 am
Now that everyone else is gearing up for the school year those of us who unschool are finally starting to slow down. I know that we personally have had a busy summer full of all sorts of educational opportunities which have kept me from blogging, and I am sure many others are finding the [...]
August 11, 2009 – 1:09 pm
This post I found over at Peace on Dark Nights is one of the best posts I have seen in a while on the difference between unit studies (and traditional homeschooling) and unschooling. And my kids find it just as frustrating as I do that all the 5 year old and up kids in [...]
It’s nice to have children’s books, but far too many of them have too much in the way of pictures. When children see books, as they do in the family where the adults read, with pages and pages and pages of print, it becomes pretty clear that if you’re going to find out what’s in [...]
I want to introduce you to Zookeeper Cat, otherwise known as Cathi-Lynn who blogs both at Life-Led Learning and Scita>Scienda . Cathi-Lynn and her husband are Christian unschoolers who live and learn with their kids on the Canadian Prairie. I suggest you go over and peruse both her sites as they are full of wonderful [...]
Every once in a while we have a day that can be described as nothing short of educational, which we usually call “edumactational” to make it more fun. These are the sorts of days that I dreamed of when my children were still babies and I thought about homeschooling them as they were older; [...]
The Arrival is a beautifully illustrated, wordless, allegorical, graphic novel. It is the story of an immigrant who leaves his family to find a better place for a new world. Shaun Tan uses timing and amazing images to demonstrate to the reader/onlooker what it felt like for various people coming to a new country [...]
A pair of researchers, Harriet Pattison and Alan Thomas, are conducting a survey on how children learn to read at home. From the site:
‘In “How Children Learn at Home” we concentrated on how children learn school subjects informally at home. Our aim was to build up a general picture of learning at home. [...]
