Checking in on Saturday Morning

Hi all — I appreciate all the supportive comments to my last post about letting go on the playground (and in the home “classroom”) and about staring at this blog and asking myself why? I guess I am taking a blogging break. I really feel adrift right now — I’ve lost my focus here. (Did [...]

Friday

I have been asking myself more and more WHY I’m keeping up this blog. There is not much here, anymore, that anyone would like to read. It seems to have become just a repository for random learning notes — and I’m even questioning why I’m doing that. Do I really need portfolio fodder broken into [...]

Thursday: Odds and Ends

I fear these learning notes (which don’t vary much from day to day) are deathly dull, but my future self may appreciate having them. Jotting down notes about unschooling days, highlighting certain things, and translating them into the language of traditional schooling may provide me with portfolio/evaluation fodder. Fodder is good.
Monday Night
Christina got me hooked [...]

A Meme, Disorganized Thoughts on Unschooling, and a Bit of “Mother Culture”

After homeschooling for about five years, we recently became novice unschoolers. We don’t resemble any unschoolers I’ve ever seen in captivity (even out here on the outer edge of normalcy.) My older daughter attends public school part-time. I reluctantly supported this decision. And of course, as usual, she was wise about knowing what was best [...]

Monday — Games and Scribbling

Marie is still really sick, and probably would’ve had to miss school today, so it was fortunate that it snowed! School was canceled, and we settled in to hibernate for the day.
After a period of moping, because I had to cancel the sleepover he had planned tonight, Marty went out to play in the snow. [...]

The Saturday Morning Post

For some reason, I feel compelled to write on this blog, even when I have nothing to say. When I don’t post, it feels lonely in here. Weird, huh?
Marie has been sick for the past few days. Friday, she stayed home from school and slept late. When she got up, she asked me to make [...]

Monday-Tuesday Learning Notes and Stuff

I agree with Adesa of 2 Homeboys fame, when she says that being really connected with kids, through activities that matter to them, creates fertile ground for learning:
The best part of it all, though, is that this game is something we do together. We connect through playing it. And that connection is where learning happens [...]

Weekend Notes

It seems silly for me to keep posting learning notes — they don’t vary much, do they? Marie is still into movies, Marty loves Wolf Brother and video games. Missy is busy trying to be Reigning Queen of the Universe. Throw in some public school time, P.E., Music, a bit of drawing and a little [...]

Unschooling, Video Games, and Assorted Catch-Up

Matt is feeling a little better this week. We all sat down and had a talk about unschooling (my hubby is skeptical of the concept) and about video game restrictions (hot topic in this house).
I pointed out to Matt that when he was in college, he made minimal effort unless he stumbled across a class [...]

Monday Muddling

Martin and I had a really good day today — I want to get it down before my brain shuts down.

Marty wanted to get up before the crack of dawn to listen to more of Wolf Brother together. It’s an excellent book — a blend of fantasy and prehistory — narrated by no [...]