Category Archives: Unschool

Seemed to be intended for bad…

I was reading around the net again, looking for homeschool news and such and happened across this article. Timmy Reyes is a pro surfer and he weighs in on his thoughts about homeschool as it relates to surfing: My parents really wanted me to stay in school. They wanted me to receive my diploma the [...]

Yesterday’s fervor & Today’s task

My son had the wind of inspiration with him yesterday as he breezed through about six pages of his new workbook from Brighter Vision and helped me make stand up animal cutouts. He was still asking for more workbook pages when I got tired! His phonics skills are getting stronger. He only made a few [...]

Essay:Reasons why we homeschool

There are many such essays and entries across the internet. People like to tell you what their individual reasons are for homeschooling their child(ren). It is really interesting to read all the different thoughts on the subject, especially because they help you to form your own reasons into a more whole thought. I tried to [...]

Dr. Phil is a Dolt

Or is he? He is rather smart in making his show slant to fit his own narrow-minded beliefs. I was reading about how he had another show on Homeschool and yet again slanted it to make us look like a bunch of lunatics who are abusing our children by not allowing them the privilege of [...]

Chronological Order and Associations

This afternoon, my son and I undertook a few small cut and paste projects. He was able to put pictures in categories based on what type of transportation they were: Land, Air, Sea. Then he put vehicles with the workers who use them: train master, firefighter, police woman, and farmer. Next, we tackled two story [...]

Milestones and comparisons

As parents, I think we tend to do comparisons within our families from child to child, and within our society from child to child. This is a dangerous habit that we really should focus on breaking. It doesn’t really matter how fast your child progresses as opposed to the way other children progress. Each child [...]

Keeping rythym

He has been very interested in learning how to keep time with his drum sticks. He loves the song “We Will Rock You” by Queen as it is easy to pick up the beat and continue to keep it pretty easily. He did an excellent job,even asking for the song to be replayed 3 times [...]

Putting things in order

He is really getting into puzzles and how to put things in the right order. I am hoping that the puzzles and flash cards will help him to gain a better understanding of the order of stories. We have also been working on phonics. He knows a few letters, but is having issues with some [...]