Posted in Lesson Planning on Sep 17th, 2007 5 Comments »
I’ve been working on the plans for our celebration of the Fall Equinox. I’m hoping by the time we finish this five-day unit*, the children will:
have an understanding of the equinox
be familiar with the harvest and abundance stories in various mythologies (Demeter and Persephone, Ancient Greece; Modron and Mabon, British Isles; and Amiyao and […]
Posted in Philosophies and Methods, Materials We're Using, Perceptions, Lesson Planning on Sep 14th, 2007 8 Comments »
This weekend I will be sharing here my plans for our celebration of the Fall Equinox/Mabon (which falls on September 23rd this year). Before that, I want to clarify where I stand regarding religious labels. I can’t really say I’m secular in the true spirit of the definition, but I also don’t believe […]
Posted in Perceptions, Lesson Planning, Life on May 8th, 2007 9 Comments »
I think we’re going to become unschoolers.
I’m a little scared.
I have all of those jitters and questions that people ask. You know the ones I mean…What if they don’t want to learn anything? What if they just want to play all day, every day, for the rest of their lives? What if […]
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 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 Lesson Planning, Life on Jul 1st, 2006 7 Comments »
I’m sitting here working on the schedule for next year. Yes, schedule. I like schedules. We are unschoolish in the summer, and on weekends, anything goes, but for the most part—-I like having a schedule for those 180 required days per year.
Fortunately, my kids have inherited this same love of […]
Posted in Lesson Planning on May 24th, 2006 3 Comments »
We are officially finished with our 2005-2006 school year. In spite of the crazy, mixed-up year we had*, we managed to meet our overall goals in most subjects. This year was a learning experience for me, as well as the children. For one thing, I learned the classical method is not a good fit for […]
