Tag: homeschool
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DIRE WARNINGS! HORRIBLE THINGS COULD HAPPEN TO YOU IF YOU ATTEMPT TO MAKE CRYSTALS OUT OF THIS LITTLE FLOWERS OF THE MINERAL WORLD CRYSTAL KIT!
H.o.p.’s Crystal Growing Experiment, View 1 H.o.p. likes crystals. Inspired by a nice amethyst crystal his grandmother sent him, he got a little “amethyst purple” crystal growing kit from the shop at the natural history museum here. The outside of the box had a picture promising fantastic crystal formations, a fabulous huge amethyst blossom with…
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We Can't Be Masters of Everything or Even Take Beginner's Classes Because It Costs Lotsa Money
Today school starts again in our area. We don’t follow a strict school schedule and are very eclectic in our homeschooling but…it’s time to think of something new to do around here. Like Tai Chi and Qigong! Won’t this be like the blind leading the blind. Not having funds for classes, around twelve years ago…
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THE VANITY H.O.P. ART TOTE BAGS CAME OUT GREAT
The Child Experiments – H.o.p. as Salesman Not a promo shot. And no it’s not an apron, it’s a tote bag. The recent haul of vanity H.o.p. loot from Cafepress arrived a several days ago and it looks great. We got a couple of the tote bags, which seem more than a fair price in…
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I shouldn’t have scheduled the CAT 5 standardized test for this week
Alicublog today writes, The screaming fellow with the Bluetooth earpiece may not in fact be connected; he may in fact be screaming to himself, only using technology to conceal his madness from the world. Which I have the feeling is me most any given day of the week, though I enjoy it when ISPs like…
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Hey, you! The ones who were properly, socially adjusted in school and think homeschoolers are "overly rugged individualists who lack the impulse or skills to mix in as collaborative members of everyday society!"
I read that kids who win spelling bees Google their names like crazy. If that’s the case, to this year’s winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, Evan O’Dorney, congratulations! But I hope he never Googles this page and that his parents have some child filter on their computer because man I wouldn’t want Evan…
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Arrrrgh, standardized testing
I hate standardized testing. I loathe, loathe, loathe it. But GA requirements are that beginning with the 3rd year you must subject your child to a standardized test. Being eclectic homeschoolers (tossing in a good portion of unschooling philosophy) we do our homeschooling year round here, going at a rate that’s comfortable for H.o.p. Each…
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Fernbank Science Center Observatory (2 views)
Fernbank Science Center Observatory We had a lovely night at the observatory at Fernbank. The weather was cool and clear. There weren’t many people and when there aren’t many people that means you get a chance to look at a variety of celestial bodies. Outside, one of the smaller telescopes was trained on the moon,…
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Blasting the old "Homeschoolers are destroying the future of science!" argument
While H.o.p. is learning about how rats at a temple in India are revered and that at the end of the day people drink from their milk bowls with the hope of acquiring luck (his interest in the creatures that populate the Redwall world has him daily eager to learn more about rats, mice, moles…
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The Jello Man Tragedy
Making a Jello Man was harder than H.o.p. thought it would be. Those are the two shots I was able to capture before H.o.p., hysterically laughing, doubled over on the floor and that was that. Was time to step in and make sure we didn’t end up with jello all over the rug. Well, we’ve…
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Ding dong…
The blogs are abuzz with Jerry Falwell’s death. We decided not to watch the video on the Great Wall of China at Netflix because I read a review by someone who knows better (is from China) and they were lambasting it for misidentifying time periods etc. So we watched a video on Vienna and some…
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As H.o.p. runs screaming from the room
On one of the homeschool groups I’m on, an almost-war popped up over home science. One person had written in something about homeschool and science needs and how they were amazed at the materials some people had at home or had easy access to. The person ended the comment with a smiley, which indicates good…
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In an uncertain world, it's desired your mother should have a crystal ball
“Redwall” is a children’s book about mice and other animals at war with rats. Marty spent quite a while this past winter reading “Redwall” to H.o.p. at night. This past weekend H.o.p. got the “Redwall” TV series (first part) from Netflix. This is the state of conversation around here. Marty: They got it all wrong!…