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inside the movie 3 Dec 2009 | 09:24 am
When I grow up, I think I’m going to be an actor. For the past few months, I’ve been involved with a movie making class. And about a week ago, I went to a real live film shoot. My dad works as an e...
try to relax 2 Dec 2009 | 05:45 pm
I often hear (and read) other homeschoolers, the ones who do some form of structured learning, talking about how they like to get the “schooling” portion of the day out of the way in the morning. Whi...
division by any other name 21 Nov 2009 | 01:45 pm
Last year in school, Damian was entirely befuddled by long division. And I can understand why. He had to remember this arbitrary-seeming set of rules about taking the largest place value number, mul...
gun play 11 Nov 2009 | 09:52 am
Damian’s interest in guns (mostly Nerf), as evidenced in his post below, has been… um…. interesting. For the record, I have no problem with it. Dan has no problem with it. We both see it as a norma...
Nerf guns and me 11 Nov 2009 | 09:35 am
These days, I’ve pretty much been interested in guns. Not the deadly kind, but the kind that shoots foam darts instead of metal bullets. That kind is made by a company called Nerf. Recently, I’ve n...
Today in homeschool gym class 3 Nov 2009 | 04:24 pm
Scrum! Because Kathy asked. And because I thought it was funny. Come to think of it, I may have a little something to say as well. Which is: I signed Damian up for homeschool gym last session (Se...
not exactly unschooling 26 Oct 2009 | 10:16 am
This past week, I started reading online about unschooling, following an email thread to a hyperlink to a webpage, and so on. And as often happens when I do that, I started wondering about unschoolin...
why we homeschool (reason #153) 22 Oct 2009 | 01:01 pm
We live on a steep hill. Long steep driveway. Long steep street heading out from the driveway. Did I mention steep? Yeah. One morning after a snowstorm this past winter, I was walking with Damian...
here, there, and everywhere 19 Oct 2009 | 02:40 pm
Okay, so here’s an unexpected homeschool dilemma: how much is too much? Damian belongs to a homeschool discussion group that meets biweekly (the setup: discussion first, then pizza and play). We go ...
bread 16 Oct 2009 | 07:57 am
A few days ago, Mom and I made what I consider to be the best bread in the world. Today we’re going to tell you a few things about bread, as well as showing you some pictures we took of the bread mak...
