Elementary
Project learning ~ Bedrooms and Dollhouses (& Pond building too)
September 4, 2009
During the craziness of last month I alluded to getting Celine started on a project. I also briefly mentioned the perhaps projects are our home education modus operandi. I'm not sure I'm ready to hang my hat totally on that idea but my kiddos sure do learn an awful lot ...
A bare-bones homeschool library and reluctant readers
August 28, 2009
A homeschool library Earlier this summer I was asked the following: Since you keep your at home book collection small, I'd love to hear about which books you do think are worth owning vs. borrowing. People will disagree with me on this but I don't think it's worth owning much, ...
A homeschool portfolio review
August 26, 2009
In the state of Maine there are a couple legal options for homeschooling. You can register with a private school (and I think you can even become a private school) or send the Department of Education yearly notifications of 1) your intent to homeschool and 2) a copy of a ...
August homeschool reads
August 6, 2009
I'm on a homeschool roll these days. Maybe because I'm working on the kid's portfolios for their review in a couple weeks. I seem to recall being in an "education state of mind" last summer around this time. I've come across some interesting reads & listens lately that I wanted ...
Celine's dog Yvon
August 5, 2009
I have a bunch of things to say about project learning (not to be confused with unit studies), which I think just might be our method to this madness called homeschooling. Sometime I hope to get the ideas out of my head and onto this digital paper but in the ...
Defining Priorities to Make a Family Schedule
July 15, 2009
These are the guiding principles I use when planning our family's weekly schedule.
Five free activities for rainy summer days
July 13, 2009
Imagine if you will, a couple days of rainy weather. Or worse yet, a whole week. Or the unthinkable - an entire month of rainy, wet summer days. That was our June. Ok, it didn't rain the whole month there were those 2 days of sunshine. And we made the ...
