Years ago I owned and operated a website called Mommy Chats. Remember live chats? They used to be a big thing. Not anymore. So eventually, after many successful years, the site faded away, and no longer exists (I actually sold it finally, but they never did anything with it)…you can
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what we’ve been up to
we’ve finally gotten the learning village off the ground and running, and i’m quite proud of how things have been going! here’s what we did in february: feb 11–valentine’s day party feb 17–1st origami club meeting feb 23–1st bird walk feb 25–savemart center tour and in march, things picked up
Continue readinglanguage arts a-la unschooling :)
maeven is very into emailing people these days. i use zoobuh for her because its very cheap (i think it ends up being $1/month, but you pay a year in advance) and very kid friendly and safe. another plus is that you can configure it to send an email to
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a long time ago i started to get comfortable with the idea that there wasn’t any specific schedule of topics and skills that my children needed to learn at certain times. i’ve been comfortable with this idea, for the most part, for awhile…but i still find myself susceptible to the
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i posted this a couple days ago at my main blog, and realized i should have posted it here, on my homeschooling blog. oh well, its both places now. 🙂 i’ve been doing a LOT of thinking about education again since listening to some radio shows about it…i’ve mentioned them
Continue readingDid I mention she’s writing?
Good heavens but this child is making this stuff easy! Who needs copywork? My child is CONSTANTLY writing! Why in the world would I force her to write stuff she doesn’t want to when she is writing us letters and writing her own stories and journal entries and even writing
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