A few weeks ago I found a neat blog, the confined nomad. The bloggers are eating their way around the world without ever leaving New York City. The adventure intrigued me and simultaneously made me totally depressed and envious, as there is no way one can eat one's way around the world at restaurants in the Armpit. You can't even eat your way ( Read more... )

An excerpt of a quote I found on someone's LJ: "Studies at the University of Chicago and the University of Minnesota have found that teachers smile on children with high IQs and frown upon those with creative minds. Intelligent but uncreative students accept conformity, never rebel, and complete their assignments with dispatch and to perfection. ( Read more... )

When we first decided to homeschool our children ten years ago, there was a constellation of reasons why. A precocious four year old, a hapless school district, lack of decent and affordable private schools, and our then very avante garde lifestyle all conspired together to help make us make the homeschooling decision. This was not an easy choice ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago I finally found two homeschool groups in the area that claim to be "secular". Daughter Unit and I went to meet the first group. They seemed nice, but there weren't any older kids. When I mentioned (in the interests of disclosure) that we're Heathens and that's one of the main reasons why we're interested in secular homeschooling ( Read more... )

Traditional Japanese Kabuki theater is performed only by men but it was started by a woman named Okuni in the early 1600s A.D.from my Twitter: http://twitter.com/homeschoolresaRead more... )

The Son Unit recently read Canterbury Tales. For his Canterbury Tales activity, he translated The Prioress's Tale into LoLCat. Why the Prioress's tale? Because the singing zombie boy thing really weirded him out. Why LoLCat? Because it's ridiculous and anti-Semitic piece and we felt it deserved to be made fun of. ETA: I realize that a lot of ( Read more... )

The Girl-unit's spelling book insists that el and al are pronounced the same. We're talking about things like the ending combos of letters on final and fuel, to use two actual examples from her lesson. I checked Howjsay and they don't sound at all alike there. So I'm wondering, where in the English speaking world do final and fuel sound alike ( Read more... )

I'm so excited about this I have to share it with everyone,even if you're not a homeschooler.

Look at these Great Latin Learning Resources that I got from a Latin study list today. Be sure to visit the Rudimenta in Motu, little flash cartoons that help with basic concepts ( Read more... )

Son Unit is reading: Gilgamesh: A New English Version by Stephen Mitchell
Daughter is reading: Gilgamesh The King by Ludmila Zeman
I'm reading: The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh by David DamroschWe're back at Year One in our cycle, which starts with Ancient History and ends pretty much with the Viking ( Read more... )