My oldest and I are on a panel this weekend, at a Gifted Homeschoolers Conference. In thinking about what might be asked of us, I began ruminating about some of my theories regarding education. I will share a few here, as I debut a new feature, “Theory Thursday.”
I think it’s interesting that we were chosen [...]

Playing catch-up (what’s new??)
Obviously, Tuesday was spent doing what pretty much everyone else in the world was doing: watching the inauguration of our 44th president. The kids thought the pomp was awesome. Loved seeing the remaining presidents (we’ve been studying them), but totally tuned out once the speeches started.
Wednesday was our first Homeschool Choir concert [...]

Today was a low energy day. “School” was an unstructured affair (though one of my three “did school” on her own by assigning herself some reading, math, sight words and more Explode the Code). My youngest decided to do quite a bit of artwork, and my oldest built many wonderful inventions with his Legos (and [...]

The majority of our Wednesdays are usually spent in “outside classes” and the travel to & from them. We have Homeschool Choir in the morning (about an hour round trip + the hour that we are there), and Spanish class at the Community Center in a nearby town. We round out the day by our [...]

Homeschool got off to a great start in 2009! I was a little apprehensive, since the kids had a two week break, and stayed up late and not on any sort of regular schedule (though I do still have them read a bit!), I thought there might be a bit of resistance to resuming our [...]