December 11, 2009 – 8:00 pm
A few weeks ago, I’d posted an interview with a 13yo homeschooler (my son), who is now an avid reader, on my blog. I received this comment from a reader, Lindy:
WOW, what a great kid you have there. And you know great kids come from great parents. Good job!!! I am trying really hard to [...]
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Tagged books, delight-directed learning, homeschooling, reading
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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 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 [...]
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 [...]
After four months of avoiding our late fees at the library, we finally headed back to the land of abundant knowledge two weeks ago. I love, love, love that I can check out our library system’s offerings online, request the books I want, and have them waiting for me at the front desk.
I realized after [...]
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. [...]
I just discovered a new Zine that may appeal to other interest-led home schoolers–it certainly appeals to me–I mean who could pass up their tag line:
“There are many practical and scholarly homeschooling resources…
Around Zine is not one of them.”
I haven’t managed to get a hold of a copy yet but will as soon as possible [...]
January 12, 2009 – 7:32 pm
Last winter my kids listened to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe on Focus on the Family’s Radio Theater. This year, they are listening to Prince Caspian. After they’re finished listening, we’ll rent the recent movie theater version and pop some corn!
I bought the 18 CD Narnia series for a mere $14.99 at Library and [...]
