The three Q’s

17 August 2010

How does one incorporate joy into math practice, other than the obvious baking of cookies every morning? I’m more of an unschooler than not, but I do believe that self-discipline and daily practice are important.

Gearing up for another Homeschool Year

9 August 2010

I’ve been thinking about what it means to do something every single day. Our piano teacher encourages her students to practice every day. She told us how a famous pianist remarked that if he skipped a day, he could tell a difference in his piano playing. If he skipped two days, his family could tell a difference. And if he skipped three days, the whole world could tell.

Pitch for a Shift

2 June 2010

I need some sort of shift, I thought, as Renee screamed at McKinley at the top of her lungs downstairs. There has to be a way for us to move more into the life we desire with less stress and more beauty. There just has to be a way!

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Will Trade Virus for Stress

27 May 2010

The Strange Virus has left. I slept in a little this morning, figuring I deserved it, then shuffled the kids off to piano lessons. There was much moaning about this from McKinley, who is 9 going on 17, thanks to the influence of his older brother Bert. He wants to play guitar, [...]

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Ramping up the Joy

9 April 2010

When I started homeschooling McKinley and Renee, my idea was that we would spend a lot of time following our bliss.  I also knew enough from my experience with homeschooling my three older kids that the vision and the reality would not often meet.
But that is changing.   There are a lot of reasons for this, [...]

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Field Trip: Knife & Fork

28 February 2010

On Thursdays we’ve been hosting cooking classes taught by Nicole: farmer, friend, and crafter of scrumptious Italian dishes. The kids learned how to make pasta (as in the homemade kind with a pasta machine), ravioli (including how to make ricotta cheese from milk), pizza, lemon almond torte & sugar cookies for Valentine’s day, and [...]

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Native Birds Project

10 February 2010

Here is Renee painting the birdfeeder we made for our Native Birds Project.  We’ve yet to have any birds come to the feeder–they must have all died from the cold.  I wasn’t sure if we wanted to put a feeder up, because of our cats, but if they start prowling around hunting the birds, we [...]

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