Education
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Beauty in the Word
Though Catholic schools are the ostensible audience, Stratford Caldecott’s Beauty in the Word is a thought-provoking read for anyone interested in the subject of education — or worried about current trends. The book…
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Factory or Garden?
I thought this was an interesting article about ADHD. It discusses the insights yielded by recent research on children with ADHD. Apparently, in these children the connections between the area of the brain…
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Challenges
Homeschooling with a new puppy and a bum foot is quite the experience. I’ve wondered before how folks with a newborn or a toddler manage to homeschool the older siblings. I think I…
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Random School Musings
I used to do “Homeschool State of the Union” posts in which I wrote about all of the resources we were using, and evaluated how things were going. The longer I’ve schooled, the…
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State Capitol
My daughters and I were fortunate enough to accompany some other homeschoolers on a field trip to our state capitol in Albany. The field trip included a program for the kids at the…
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Challenges
“Perhaps I can be of some assistance — a-s-s-i-s-t-a-n-c-e,” buzzed an unfamiliar voice, and when Milo looked up he saw an enormous bee, at least twice his size, sitting on top of the…
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They’ve Got the Whole World in Their Hands
We bought one of those solar system kits at JoAnn Fabrics and actually finished it this time. (We got one several years ago when we did astronomy the first time, but mostly the…
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Cognitive Toolboxes
A week or two ago found me musing on my role in relation to my 6th grader’s classics reading list. I realized after writing the post that I failed to note the role…
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Reading, Teaching, and Wondering
My 6th grader has been following this reading list from The Well-Trained Mind. It corresponds to her history study this year — early moderns. A few of these have been abridgements or have…
