Tag: homeschooling
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Life lately: October 2017
“Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” – Mary Oliver That’s what I try to do here: pay attention and share the wonder. This month had a whole lot of astonishing, including Aunt Kathryn stealing Khloe kisses. Still one of my favorite photos of the month, even with all the…
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NC Maritime Museum: homeschool field trip
We enjoy field trips so I’m trying to do better about planning them. A couple of weeks ago I set aside time to list a whole bunch of field trips in our area. Opportunities abound: we have no excuse not to do at least one a month, maybe more if weather and schedules cooperate. For…
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Life lately: September 2017
“By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer’s best of weather And autumn’s best of cheer.” ~Helen Hunt Jackson The calendar says it’s autumn, but we still have plenty of warm days ahead. I adore this time of year because midday feels like summer but the mornings are deliciously cool and perfect…
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A day in the life: one random Monday
What does a typical day in our household look like with homeschooling, one kid in school, and a mom working part-time outside the home? Keep in mind, we are (mostly) unschoolers. We make a point to fill our lives with good literature and big ideas. We explore our world whenever possible, and we believe real-life…
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Are we unschoolers?
When I started homeschooling twelve years ago, I knew I didn’t want our at-home learning to look like traditional school, but what I thought of as so radical at first was really stepping tentatively just outside the box. Kathryn was just five and we’d both been part of a busy preschool the year before, where…