Perspective
I was sitting in the front seat, reading a book in the fading light. Rom was driving. Orlando said, “I can count five to one.” “You can?” I looked up from my book and back at him in his booster seat. “Yes. Five, four,” he looked up at the ceiling, “three, two, one.” His eyes [...]
Flying Through the Air
Photo by -syko-.Every week, Orlando goes to his circus class. Yes, circus class. He flies through the air on the trapeze, bounces more enthusiastically than Tigger on the trampoline, practices headstands, and balances on a giant bouncy ball. (There’s no fire-eating or taming tigers. Yet.) But he is taught by bonafide acrobats and circus performers, [...]
Not Back to School Day
Unschooling is sometimes referred to as child-led learning, and most dedicated unschoolers advocate a non-coercive education in which the child has a significant role in choosing the content and the pace of learning. Perhaps most importantly, unschoolers believe that children will learn what they need to learn if allowed to seek answers to their own [...]
Glow In the Dark Germs
our first science clubgerms, petri dish, microscopevast tiny new worlds * * * * * * * * * We arrive at the neighborhood library somewhat early. Then I see her — a woman with a microscope. We follow her downstairs to the meeting room and soon others start to file in. There’s William, with [...]
Space is blowing my mind, dude
Orlando really likes the space book. It’s called SPACE and it’s all about space. The space all around us. The space that is us. As you may remember, I’m not so fond of the space book. I used to think of space as a room that was occupied by various planets and stars, arranged like [...]
You can call it whatever you want
Orlando and I are reading the space book Rom bought him for Christmas. It contains thousands of random facts about the universe, the solar system, space travel, and stars. Stuff like: Some WIMPs are called hot, dark matter because they are traveling very quickly. White dwarves are the last stage in the life of a [...]
Bee Mindful
I just signed up for The Great Sunflower Project so Orlando, Rom, Mica and I can watch pollination in action this summer. We do see quite a few bees but I’ve never paid that much attention to what kind or when they come. All you’ve got to do is sign up, receive your free package [...]
Homeschool Haiku
Over at NaBloPoMo, I joined a homeschooling bloggers group. Estea B. suggested some homeschooling haiku to get things started. I’m glad she did, because now I read her wonderful blog. Here are a few of the ones I wrote. – – – counting swings and stepsthe playground is a puzzlespontaneous math – – – uh, [...]
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