Written by Misha Thompson of The Offense of Joy What have you learned this school year? I am in the final month of finishing up our very first year of homeschooling and I am asking a lot of questions: What have I learned? What would I change? How did the kids do? How will I do it differently …
Archives for June 2010
Planning Prompts for Interest-Led Learning
The following is a guest post written by Christie Burnett of Childhood 101. As an educator passionate about interest-led learning, I know that planning for and recording a child’s learning journey is about so much more than which subjects or developmental areas have been covered. Typically the …
Keeping up with the Homeschooling Joneses
One of the worst mistakes rookie homeschooling parents can make -- and sometimes veteran ones do, too -- is to compare their kids with another. "Little Betsy is studying German and French and taking college-level algebra. Her vocal instructor says she has the voice of an angel." And while it's …
A Beach Blanket Education
Maybe it's because the beach is such a completely different landscape from the one we call home. Maybe it's the legendary lure of the sea. Whatever the reason, some of our greatest learning adventures have happened with sand in between our toes and salty wind in our hair. For those of you looking …