“Home-Schooled Students Rise in Supply and Demand” By PAULA WASLEY, The Chronicle of Higher Education For Katelin E. Dutill, high school began as soon as she woke up each day. During her senior year she would tackle her hardest courses first, while her 20-month-old sister was still asleep. That often meant taking a math or chemistry [...]
Posts Tagged ‘home school’
15 Feb
A Week in the Life of a Homeschooler
I’ve got to confess how much I LOVE reading Cellista’s homeschool blog! Her weekly reports always illustrate the wholesome, balanced nature of home school life, including not just school work, books, and academic projects, but family time, boy scouts, even cozy, Olympics-watching pajama parties! To see a recent example, click here: http://cellista.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/weekly-report-20-2/
14 Feb
More Science Fun
For those of you who missed my posting about science, click HERE to learn my secrets for helping children learn to love science! In that vein, I thought I’d share some pictures from our most recent expedition to our local science museum, where they hosted a lab that taught my children to design and build [...]
28 Dec
Holiday Learning Fun
The idea that the holidays are a time to cease learning and take a vacation is detrimental to young minds. It teaches children to view learning as a chore from which one must escape in order to have fun. Instead, I teach my children that continued learning is not only good for the mind, but [...]
28 Dec
Natural Learning Benefit #5: Mother Nature’s in Charge!
One of the benefits of natural learning is the abundance of time available for children to explore and enjoy the great outdoors, rather than spending their time confined inside a cinder-clock building. When our area was hit with a snow storm last week, my children were called to recess not by the clanging of a [...]
20 Dec
Children Need Time to Create
Charlotte Mason (the renowned educator/founder of Ambleside teacher’s college in England) taught parents and educators that, “The morning . . . is much the best time for lessons and every sort of mental work; if the whole afternoon cannot be spared for out-of-door recreation, that is the time for mechanical tasks such as [crafts], drawing, [...]
12 Dec
Benefit #2 of Natural Learning: Science Buffs
After reading about a recent government study of high school science issues (voicing concerns that teens do more goofing off in science labs than actually learning science), I thought I would share the things I learned about instilling a passionate love of science in my children! Here’s a picture of my daughter, Dizzy, working on [...]
2 Dec
An Art Historian Writes About Natural (Home) Schooling
Julie at Mental Tesserae, the ever-eloquent art historian/blogger, wrote a very insightful (and art-related) post about the difference between organic, home education and its synthetic public counterpart in the life of her gifted son. Very thought-provoking and neutral (doesn’t bash on public schools), I consider this article a must-read for parents who are looking for [...]
2 Dec
Benefit of Natural Learning #1
Natural learning has its benefits–and lack of boredom is one of the best! It is a direct result of allowing children to explore their own creativity, unhampered by the clanging of a school bell (that would force them to stop working) or the pressure of peers (who might mock some of their more out-of-the-box ideas). [...]
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