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 [...]
here’s what Daegan did with them: Just a short post tonight as I have a lot on my mind. I am realizing that I am at a crossroads of sorts, that what has been so helpful in the past no longer is—I have moved on, grown, changed. I want (and need!) to make room for [...]
Ages ago my friend Tracy asked me to write a blogpost on a typical “Day in the Life” of our homeschool family. I put it off for quite some time, as there simply is no such thing as a “typical” day—we tend to work more in terms of a balanced week (or month!), and change [...]
…and so my blogging will be slowing down over the next few weeks. I’ll have a couple more posts for you this week: the boys had their drama performance today, so I need to do some video editing, and we’re headed to our final nature class this Friday, but after that I’ll be posting only [...]
A short post tonight as I am losing the battle of the head cold. This evening, Jim, with a bit of help from me and the boys, put together some storage units from IKEA that I decided were the best thing I’ve seen yet to help organize our homeschooling materials. I have to admit I [...]
The whole family went for an after-dinner nature walk in our local neighbourhood ravines. The ravines are not that wide and are fully surrounded by houses, roads, schools, shops, etc. so I wasn’t sure how much wildlife—if any—we’d see. Am I ever glad I took my camera just in case! Here’s the entry to the [...]
This afternoon Daegan and I joined several other homeschoolers for a guided nature walk, led by a woman who teaches nature classes to youngsters. (We’ll be taking more of her classes in the coming weeks). Gareth was supposed to come too, but unfortunately he has a cold, and his accompanying asthma has him feeling quite [...]
After spending a couple hours in the hot sunshine at the bug class, we slowly headed back to the car. En route, I saw some interesting birds, like this spotted sandpiper: When we got back to the hotel, we went for a swim. This was our first time staying at this hotel in Edmonton (the [...]
On our weekend trip to Edmonton for Daegan’s birthday, we took in an Insect class for families at Devonian Gardens, about 15 minutes SW of the city. Daegan and Jim have done classes in this series before, but this was Gareth’s first time—and mine—and was he ever excited! We all had a good time, but [...]
We spent quite a bit of time inside the Interpretive Centre at Dinosaur Provincial Park, and we were all quite surprised to find that there was far more to it than dinosaurs. (Many more dinosaurs are on display at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, about an hour and a half away, and I think [...]