I’m blogging now about our lessons.  We have a most definite unschooling bent here, and my son is in 11th grade, so I think it might help me (and maybe you).  I can type so fast, but writing is sloooooow sometimes.  Blogging is a good way to keep records.

This morning we began to work through:  Prentice Hall Literature The […]

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This month’s issue of Unschooling Voices is out!
There’s a lot of good stuff there.
As well, my book review of Mary Griffith’s The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World as Your Child’s Classroom is mentioned.
Lynn

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So tonight we did like most families in the USA do (I’m sure) and gathered around the microscope for clean, family fun!  I won’t tell you what all was donated to put under the lens, but some of the donations, once magnified, did cause mouths to fall open…

and eyes to pop…

Someone (it might have been me) suggested […]

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Okay, here’s the next review.  Another book that we got for Christmas:

The Unschooling Handbook : How to Use the Whole World As Your Child’s Classroom
There’s a lot to like about this book–namely, validation that, yes, I am doing enough.
I have mixed emotions about homeschooling:  I love many of the subjects heralded as “classical,” but that did […]

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I walked into the thrift store on my break last night and I am so glad I did.  Yes, we buy some new stuff for our children for Christmas.  ~:-D  In addition, though, I always look for quality used items that would be good to stuff the Christmas stockings with.  We shop the thrift store […]

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I wanted to write a bit more about my homeschooling tendencies, since I really do not consider myself fully an unschooler.  I have been pleasantly surprised though with what I have seen produced by a period of unschooling in my home and from what I have learned from reading up on unschooling a bit.
I would say […]

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I’m not sure, but I think I might be a rebel, unschooling mom at heart.  (I need a smilie here for me laughing!)  It’s only because life threw us a few curve balls, in the midst of which I had to let my kids sort of do their own thing, and by golly they have learned […]

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