School Work

It’s amazing how much of the school curriculum can be covered in the space of a few hours. Some days they’re in the mood for some sit-down work, and boy oh boy do they get stuff done. On this day Jay spent the morning powering through a math workbook that she unearthed and covered at [...]

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Kids and Jobs

Today J came up to me and said “I wish I had a real job at a real store.” I suggested she help out at our local consignment store, and she smiled with a hopeful little grin, not quite believing it would be possible. She rummaged around in the toy pile downstairs, and came back [...]

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Math is a Tool

The clay city is still going strong. Tee usually starts projects and abandons them, so his continued interest in doing this is a bit of a change. He’s added “land” for friends that come over to play, and is now busy with making maps that delineate borders. He found it quite challenging to recreate the [...]

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Why Homeschool?

Why does homeschooling appeal to me so much? I asked myself this question in my pit of despair last week, when I was racking my brain trying to figure out why I even bother with it when I could just send them all to school, dust my hands together, and go get a job. Here it is: the [...]

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I’m So Excellent

My daughter has been politely asking me every day for weeks now to teach her how to play the harmonica. Or to find someone to teach her. Or to take her to the library so that she can find a book for beginning harmonica players. I’ve been too busy angsting over whether they’re learning enough in “school” [...]

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I Went To School Today

I’m full of thoughts that aren’t quite ready to come out in coherent form. My brain feels like it’s vibrating. I just spent the last 6 hours at a homeschool conference led by David Albert, and the topics were “The Curriculum of Beauty” and the “Dismantling of the Inner School”. Bottom line is that I [...]

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