I always thought that, since we homeschool, we would year-round school. You know, live a life of learning and all that jazz. However, last year it became very evident that it was time to mix it up a bit. At the time, I was gigantic and pregnant and this, combined with the triple-digit temps and an upcoming move just wasn’t conducive to academics. I’m not pregnant this year, but I’ve got the itch to mix it up again. And, if Continue Reading…
April 2, 2009I got out of the habit of doing weekend reviews. Part of that is because the movies we’ve been watching were such that I didn’t have much to say about them. There wasn’t anything particularly wrong with them {nor particularly right, I suppose}. They just weren’t very thoughtfully done, and so they weren’t very thought-provoking, either. And then there is the book issue. Apparently, I am turning into my mother and it now takes me approximately a year to finish Continue Reading…
June 21, 2008In a homeschool, the children aren’t often expelled {if at all}, but certain books might be. It is still the first week, and we’ve already had our first expulsion. Before I give away the title, please indulge me in an explanation. Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, about last Friday, I was reading the chapter Principles for the Study of Literature in Teaching the Trivium. In this chapter, different guidelines are suggested for knowing where to draw Continue Reading…
August 24, 2007I often forget that the debate over public schooling has been around many, many years. It is easy to get caught up in the debate of today, and to forget to listen to the voices of the past. So, on this breezy, mild June day, I bring forth a couple voices from the past, brought to my attention by the Bluedorns in their book Teaching the Trivium. Charles F. Potter in Humanist magazine in 1930: Education is thus a most Continue Reading…
June 8, 2007
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