Eclectic Homeschooling and Beyond
I heard the librarian announce over the speaker that the library was closing for the evening in fifteen minutes. Perfect. I needed to pick my daughter up from choir in ten minutes, they are rarely finished right on time to the minute anyway and it was about a five minute drive over. I’d head out […]
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The young girl from next door suddenly went soaring by on her bicycle the other evening as I watered plants on my porch. I had wondered why her mum was sitting on a lawn chair by herself right by the street, but then I understood😊. Not only had the girl now learned to ride a
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I think I first was really drawn to Usborne Books about 15 years ago when M was 3. He and I were perusing the children’s area of the library and came upon, The Big Bug Search and we just kind of sat there, hooked for a long time. We went through each double page, eagerly
Usborne Books – Broad and Deep Learning Read More »
From the early years through the teens and into the adult years, Usborne offers top-notch reference books that support and deepen learning. For almost fifteen years, Usborne Books have been a mainstay in our house. We have read poems, fairytales, myths, legends, retold classics, more recently, graphic novels and, last but not least, our beloved
Mentorships can be seriously rich for life- learning or homeschooling teens. They provide an opportunity for developing a skill or knowledge base from someone else with that specialized interest and the fun of spending time with someone who “gets” the passion or interest. Add to that the chance to learn really individually, specifically and deeply
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When my daughter was an infant, she would sit in her bright yellow Bumbo seat in the middle of the table while I made dinner beside her. Sometimes an older brother would have a dot-to-dot on the go or be drawing or writing one thing or another. The jar of pencil crayons, filled with various
Parenting with Visually Creative Kids, Homeschooling with Visually Creative Kids Read More »
Strew. It’s kind of an interesting word. When I google it, the dictionary tells me that it means, “scatter or spread untidily over an area” and that’s what I used to think about anytime I heard that word. Now it means something else to me as well. Most people who are involved in home education
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“Homeschooling” is a word most people are now familiar with. It’s not actually a word that I like all that much. We’re not really home all the time – we’re at jobs, sports, events, libraries, with friends and family a great deal – and the way we learn doesn’t resemble school – we don’t have
Understanding Homeschooling Read More »
As mentioned in “Understanding Homeschooling,” many people are now at least familiar with the homeschooling term but still don’t have a full understanding of it. They might have even less so of unschooling. What is unschooling anyway? Well, different people see unschooling as different things but I think the most common way of thinking of
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I love picture books. I love the covers, the art, the words, the ideas, the characters and I always check out where the author and illustrator are from and when the book was published. Even though my kids are technically significantly past “picture book age,” I almost always go through the children’s library on my
Canadian Picture Books Read More »