Posted in Blue Mountain Project on Apr 29th, 2007 No Comments »
Yesterday I met and spent several fascinating hours with Denise Cagley-Jefferson, the Executive Director of the Blue Mountain Project (BMP) in Jamaica. Denise founded the non-profit BMP because she felt it has been her calling since the age of eleven to serve among a poverty-stricken country. During the course of the afternoon and evening, […]
Posted in Materials We're Using on Apr 20th, 2007 1 Comment »
One of the things I enjoy about homeschooling is learning along with my children. Today I learned some things about Johann Sebastian Bach. Did you know:
~He once called one of his music students a ‘nanny-goat bassoonist’ because he felt the student made the bassoon sound like a goat. His students were up […]
Posted in Life on Apr 19th, 2007 4 Comments »
So I read all these blogs all over the internet from homeschooling moms who have brilliant unschooled children with exceptional manners who never give their parents a minute’s trouble.
Where can I sign up for that?
I went for coffee and adult talk with my dear friend Meadow (you may remember her…she and I are the ones […]
Posted in Materials We're Using, Lesson Planning on Apr 17th, 2007 8 Comments »
One bad thing about homeschooling, at least for me, is the astonishing amount of options we have for materials.
On second thought, since we’re eclectic homeschoolers, that’s not the bad thing. My lack of self-control is the problem here. I want it all! Everything looks like such fun…and then we might […]
Posted in Life on Apr 16th, 2007 2 Comments »
I took this photo along US-27 in Indiana while driving home from Tennessee after dropping off the littlies with their dad. I thought it was such a beautiful sight.
The mountains in Tennessee always take my breath away.
I saw this at a construction site, and it cracked me up.
Posted in Lesson Planning on Apr 16th, 2007 No Comments »
I’m thinking of switching a bit of our style to Montessori. Good grief, by the time we finally settle on one thing, we will thoroughly exemplify “eclectic homeschooling.” We do some classical, some Charlotte Mason, some school-at-home, some unschooling…hey, at least I know my kids can learn in a variety of ways, right?
So […]
Posted in Kid Speak, Life on Apr 15th, 2007 7 Comments »
The Cosmic Kiddies just got back from a two-week visit with their father. You may remember him from an earlier post…he married a woman who is the daughter of a public school teacher, and so on…and he as well as his entire family of in-laws are strongly opposed to homeschooling. The Sun couldn’t […]
Posted in Life on Apr 9th, 2007 6 Comments »
I’m incredibly frustrated with my continuing inability to grasp WordPress. That’s why I don’t post here anymore. I need to take some time to learn what I’m doing here. My other journaling site (LJ) spoiled me with its “you don’t have to know what you’re doing, just push this button” capabilities. […]
