. What a day! Here is what entered our home today: What Am I? a collection of short stories from All About Reading, to review for the Crew. Outliers: the Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell, from the library. I’ve been waiting for this for quite a while, and it looks fascinating. […]
Life
While Our Things Have Fairly Well-Defined Places, the Children are Free to Roam
Ever since I spent several sunny spring afternoons on my parent’s barn roof studying geography, I’ve understood that learning can happen anywhere. In fact, sometimes the unusual places get the best results. I got 100% on that course, an unheard-of mark in our high school. With that in mind, how do we organize our space […]
Happy Canada!
Yesterday evening, when Miss 17 was handing out Bibles, soup, and socks to homeless people, the streets suddenly overflowed with overjoyed Canadians, celebrating our country’s gold medal for hockey. What a good game it was! Truly, both teams were champions. Annie Kate PS We don’t normally watch sports, but the last […]
Homeschooling a Handful
This week’s Blog Cruise question is, “How do you handle multiple ages?” Although I’m still looking for the perfect answer to that question, here’s what I’ve learned so far with our five children. Choose your curriculum carefully. There are wonderful programs, such as Ambleside Online, that take a lot of a mother’s […]