I couldn’t pass up Read Aloud Thursday this week — not when we’re reading a tale our gracious host is reading! The difference is that this one gives us the story without the Dickensian trademark of (often delightful) long-windedness. An abridgement for children, Malvina Vogel’s Great Illustrated Classics version of A Tale of Two Cities [...]
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Just one book to mention for Read Aloud Thursday this week: Sam the Minuteman, by Nathaniel Benchley, illustrated by Arnold Lobel. I picked it up from the library last week in connection with history, but the cover didn’t appeal to Older Daughter. When she finally read it, she changed her tune and wanted me to read [...] I’ve been thinking about our eclectic reading, and remembering this paragraph from The Well-Trained Mind where Jessie Wise shares the library habits she worked to develop in her children: …I was known at the local public library as ‘the lady with the laundry basket’ because I took my children in every week and filled a laundry [...] Time to take a look at the texts we’re using this year. In this post I discussed some of the global issues of our home school, but here I want to think about the specific texts and tricks. Kindergarten: I have very modest goals for my kindergartner. She turned 6 in December, so she has a fair [...] I haven’t done a Homeschool State of the Union post this year. Maybe it’s because I’m having a harder time judging how things are going than I did when Older Daughter was in first or second grade. This year I have a kindergartner and a third grader, and I’m going to do a post about [...] We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters’ side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parents. (C.S. Lewis) I’ve been trying to [...] Last Friday at co-op, the K-1 chemistry class investigated what happens when molecules react. I explained some different ways atoms can be rearranged in reactions. (Legos come in handy at such times.) Then, we attempted our first experiment. Actually, over-prepared lass that I am, we did three: We observed what happens to tarnished pennies when they’re soaked [...] We’ve had two good classes so far with my 15 highly energetic K/1 chemistry students. I’ve been adapting material from Ellen McHenry’s The Elements, Real Science-4-Kids Pre-Level 1 Chemistry, general internet discoveries, and my own ideas. Last week we learned about the Periodic Table as a listing of all the ingredients of the universe. The Elements [...] Today was a first. After a harrowing trip to Walmart this morning (all trips to Walmart are harrowing for me), I returned home to find Older Daughter totally absorbed in this book. There she sat on the couch, an almost-frown of concentration on her face, apparently oblivious to all else. Finally, I asked her directly, “What [...] I’m going to be teaching K-1 chemistry for our homeschool co-op this spring. (It starts this week.) For the most part, I’ll use the Real-Science-4-Kids organization, but I’m mixing in some additional — well, elements — both in order to introduce the concept of the Periodic Table, and to find ways to make the class [...] |
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