An Occasional Digest
In my last two posts, I told you about the ideas that have influenced my kindergarten homeschool curriculum, as well as the subjects we’re studying, the activities that go with those, and the way I’ve organized our approach. In this …
My Kindergarten Homeschool Curriculum: Our Routine Read more »
In my last post, I shared the styles of homeschooling that have influenced the kindergarten curriculum I’ve created this year for King Sturdy. In this post, I’m going to tell you which subjects we’re focusing on and how we organize …
My Kindergarten Homeschool Curriculum: What We Study Read more »
There are a lot of different ways to homeschool: different curricula of course, also different philosophies. Here’s the mishmash of approaches that I like, with a broad-brush description of how I think about each. Unschooling Noticing opportunities to learn, constantly, …
Four homeschooling styles that shape our curriculum Read more »
Five-year-olds had a big first, last week. They started school. Parents were excited and weepy. Kids were excited and scared. Teachers were excited and reassuring. All the hubbub was sweet and exciting even from a distance, and a part of …
The other day in school, we talked to King Sturdy about potential and kinetic energy, then showed him an OK Go video to illustrate. Today, he had his heart set on building a Rube Goldberg Machine. After some debate, we …
In the first chapter of Before Philosophy, Henri and Henriette Frankfort pointed out that the language of myth, which they called “speculative thought,” isn’t so common these days, because science. In our own time speculative thought finds its scope more severely limited than it …
Confession: I let my toddler pull a kitchen chair down on top of himself. I could’ve jumped up and righted the chair before it fell, but I didn’t.
Before you decide that “kindness teaches best” is some kind of frufru, no-accountability form of permissive parenting, hold on a second.
We’ve got this notion that people — kids, especially — need to suffer a little bit when they do something wrong, so that next time, they’ll think, “Last time I suffered. I don’t think I’ll do that again.”
In an earlier post, I started compiling the passages I like best from the first chapter of Before Philosophy, because there’s something in there that strikes a chord and I want to tease out what it is. I left off with …