photo by timlewisnm We’ve all been there, sitting quietly in a room filling out bubble after bubble with our #2 pencils, but is that a thing of the past? My oldest will have to take her first round of standardized tests next year so it’s been on my mind lately. As homeschoolers these tests are one…
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How Kids Can Help the Victims of the Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan.
Photographer: Takashi NAKANO (?? ??) Yesterday the kids and I talked a great deal about the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan. We looked at information online about how earthquakes occur etc. The discussion inevitably turned to the people of Japan and my oldest asked what she could do to help. A simple question but…
Super Science Lessons from Science With Me
Dental issues and health have been a prominent theme in my family as of late. In looking for some lessons on teeth for my kids I came across Science With Me. This site has great lessons, coloring sheets and experiments. There’s a great one about teeth which helped me to explain to the kids which…
Who’s Judging Who? The Homeschooling/Schooling Divide.
Green for tea ~ Orange for coffee by ?lex As a home educator (homeschooler, unschooler, whatever we are) I often feel awkward around schooling families, not because I have any issues with parents who send their children to school, but because I sometimes get the feeling that they think I am judging them for sending their…
Dinosaur Smash! – A Child Created Game for Learning Math and Measurement
My youngest loves to make up games and also manipulate existing games or pieces to create something new. When we were snowed in last week her and her Papa (who’s a big geek) worked together to create an amazing game which she named “Dinosaur Smash!”. They assigned various attributes and points to each of her various plastic…
Homeschoolers are Rarely at Home.
There is a common misconception out their that homeschoolers spend their days sitting in their homes with one of their parents doing workbooks and literally schooling at home. I’m sure that they are out there those who subscribe to this extreme version of homeschooling and bring the classroom home but have yet to meet anyone doing this. The…
Can Home-schooled Kids be “Successful”?
Image via Wikipedia What do Julian Assange, The Jonas Brothers and Condoleezza Rice all have in common? They were all home-schooled. For quite some time I have been looking for a list of successful contemporary homeschoolers and The World’s 15 Most Extraordinary Homeschoolers fits the bill. This list includes others that have worked on the human genome project, excelled at professional…