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Parenting & Education · 2M ago

Around the World in 150 Days

Yes, after a year, I am finally getting back to writing on this page. A lot has happened in the year behind me. We relocated to Europe, my father became terminally ill, we rushed back to the states, my father died, and now I am here. Again. I would almost say I’m back where I [...]

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Parenting & Education · 1Y ago

Zoo Field Trip – learning about more than just animals

WARNING: Planning and map reading skills in use. We recently took a trip to the zoo. Squirrel had a zoo map that he had saved from our last trip to the zoo (almost a year ago). As we are preparing to leave he makes a big deal about packing his backpack with the map. This [...]

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Parenting & Education · 1Y ago

Unschooling is hard and dangerous work

Sometimes the best thing to do is to do nothing. I love unschooling. But it is very hard sometimes. So often I want to jump in and try to manipulate the learning process. And every time I do that, learning stalls. It is hard to be patient and let my kids learn what they need [...]

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Parenting & Education · 1Y ago

Learning a new language?

How do you learn a foreign language when you don’t know anyone who knows the language? We are getting ready for a big move to Europe. One of the biggest obstacles for travel… and homeschooling… is learning a foreign language. Our family is learning Czech. It’s not the most common language out there.

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Parenting & Education · 1Y ago

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Parenting & Education · 1Y ago

Old Dogs, New Math – book review and give away

Old Dogs, New Math: homework help for puzzled parents Many thanks to The Experiment Publishing for sending me this book to review and offering to give a book away to one lucky reader! Now onto the juicy bits… I was a bit worried at first, but very curious. Math is NOT my strong point. And, [...]

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Parenting & Education · 1Y ago

The Sun – science study made easy thanks to the internet

We started the day by reading a little book we aquired years ago. It’s just a small little pamphlet from NASA, but they enjoy reading it. On the last page we were referred to the NASA website (http://stp.gsfc.nasa.gov) and they wanted to check it out. And away we went. We started by looking at some

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Parenting & Education · 1Y ago

New Math – Fun with Cards

I’m reading Old Dogs, New Math by Rob Eastaway and Mike Askew. It inspired me to try out some ideas with the kids to encourage math learning. So, today we spent some time playing cards. First we played “13″. A solitary card game my mother taught me when I was a wee young lass. You [...]

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Parenting & Education · 1Y ago

John Stossel talks (again) about Education – Reform and Bureaucracy

Meet a teacher’s union rep, a principal (administrator), a superintendent (administrator), and an online school administrator and they’ll tell you everything that they are doing right for schools. Hulu – Stossel: Thu, Sep 16, 2010 – Watch the f…, posted with vodpod Testing our way to the top. Pay cl

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Parenting & Education · 1Y ago

11 TED talks for Parents listed on Christian Colleges and Universities Website

I was just directed to an interesting little site. It is a listing and resource for online higher education at a group of religious schools. The list is predominantly Christian, but I think they are trying to be as comprehensive as possible. So this is definitely a site that almost anyone could look

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