Category: Education
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Welcome to the hairy potty homeschool. Please be seated and stop arguing with your sister.
I admit I’ve come rather late into the game. I have only just now been introduced to Harry Potter. Yes, it’s true: Harry Potter has been part of our household for six years, and I have managed to avoid him. My husband read the first two books out loud to our son, then declared it…
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The Computer History Museum
I have been teaching a group of homeschoolers how to use the Alice programming environment. This is an environment created by researchers at Carnegie Mellon with young programming students in mind. Most of the kids using it are high school students, but the kids I’m teaching range from eight to twelve. If you want to…
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How do we get by? Homeschooling families talk about how to make ends meet
From the outside, homeschooling sometimes seems like a luxury to families who think they can’t afford to have one spouse “not working.” But homeschooling families say that no matter what their finances or their family structure, they find a way to make it work. Probably the commonest scenario is that the primary homeschooler has to…
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Getting ready for life
My kids’ homeschool program is putting on their annual play this week. It’s a lot of work. One by one, kids and adults are melting down. At our house, we haven’t done much in the way of academics this week. I ask my daughter to do math and she says she needs to make a…
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Science inspirations
We had another year of the ups and downs of the county science fair, and I can once again say that this is a great experience for kids. It can be a little hard on the parents. Here are my pro’s and con’s of the science fair. Pro: This is a whole-child learning experience. Most…