Interestingly, Sharon Astyk blogged about unschooling this week. She does touch on some of the things that were troubling me. I still like many of the ideas about unschooling, but it just doesn’t ‘feel’ right in our home school. Maybe it’s about me and my control issues and maybe that’s not a bad thing. I [...]
Posts Tagged ‘learning styles’
Call me an unschooling drop-out!
Posted in General, tagged basketball, change, Charlotte Mason, Flower Child, high school, learning styles, life school, Princess, schedule, Sonlight, teens, unschooling on Tuesday, 27 April 2010 | 1 Comment »
Age segregation interferes with children's natural means of learning.
Posted in General, tagged learning styles, life, life school, unschooling on Friday, 28 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Why We Should Stop Segregating Children by Age: Part I–The Value of Play in the Zone of Proximal Development When you are little and just with kids your own age, the range of possible activities is restricted by the knowledge and abilities of those in your age group; but in collaboration with older kids there [...]
Homeschool that girl!
Posted in General, tagged learning styles, life school, public school, traditional school, unschooling on Saturday, 31 January 2009 | 2 Comments »
Or… How Mama yelled at the tee-VEE and got kicked out of the room. We all sat down and watched No Reservations on Encore the night the electricity came back on. The movie is about a New York City executive chef (Kate) who must take in her niece (Zoe) after her sister’s untimely death in [...]
I can't get him out of my mind. The 7 year old boy.
Posted in General, tagged better late than early, learning styles, life school, schedule on Friday, 9 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »
(From the Sonlight Forums, written by Amy) This little guy is on every homeschool message board I read. He is in every homeschool support group I’ve ever known. He’s almost always the oldest child in his family. As a firstborn child, he is often very smart and slightly serious of disposition. His parents, his Sunday [...]
One size fits… no one!
Posted in General, tagged algebra, geometry, learning styles, Math on Wednesday, 15 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have two students who are in 10th grade. About the only thing they have in common are their genes and the grade designation. One is a concrete sequential, perfectionist girl and the other is a happy-go-lucky, abstract random boy. I tried again to fit them into the same mold. It didn’t work. It didn’t [...]
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