Category: Education
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Math stories
NOTE: This post has been updated by a new, consolidated post and list of Math Stories which you can find here. Homeschoolers are constantly sending out information about cool resources they found, great projects that inspired their children, and new curriculum they’re trying. I try to keep up on it all, but a lot of…
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A ledger for peace
I’m not much at finance. I’m good at math, and very organized, so you’d think I’d do OK at bookkeeping. But on the contrary: I hate bookkeeping and it hates me. I do the bare minimum required for my business and force myself monthly to balance our home accounts. When I’m a penny off, I…
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The big switcheroo
As longtime readers of this blog know, I live a double life. Days I’m a homeschooling mom with my seven-year-old daughter. Nights and weekends I get my eleven-year-old son back from school and I’m a schooling mom, asking what happened today in that mysterious, far-away land called “school.” It’s a weird sort of existence, sort…
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The reluctant pied piper of homeschooling
I read all these well-reasoned articles about how parents pulling the highest achieving students to homeschool them or put them into private schools is hurting our public schools. The theory is, we should sacrifice our children to the greater good and leave them there. We should work with the system rather than opting out. But…
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Make way for unbridled creativity!
It’s something like non-stop creativity at my house. My daughter has a spot in our breakfast room, on the floor, where she pulls out her wares: bits of cloth, paper of various colors and textures, glue, beads, string, egg cartons, boxes we threw in the recycling and hoped would stay there, needles and thread, a…