I don’t often do posts like this, I suppose due to my personal bias against ‘experts’ and yet-another-blog-telling-me-how-to-do-things. But I know there’s several of you new homeschoolers out there reading this (or so my ‘little birds’ tell me), so I thought I’d take a stab at the “Advice to Newbies” homeschool blogpost. Google and you’ll [...]
The boys and I kicked off (what we are calling) our first day of homeschool for the 2011-2012 year. Daegan is now grade 4, and Gareth grade 2. It went wonderfully! After our two week ‘staycation’, the boys were raring to go, as was I. This is the most recharged I’ve felt in years. While [...]
Over the past several weeks I’ve been doing some thinking and planning for the new homeschool year, which we’re going to start at the end of August. We’re changing things up a bit for next year, and going to try following more a structured schedule that WE create. In the past, our weeks have been [...]
I’ve been spending a lot of time on the Well-Trained-Mind (WTM) curriculum board lately, getting tons of ideas for homeschool next year. I have to say that’s a place I never thought I’d find myself, as several aspects of the WTM philosophy of education don’t fit with my own beliefs. But a friend of mine [...]