Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., high school, JBug on Aug 21st, 2010 12 Comments »
I posted last about Superboy’s Charlotte Mason-inspired schedule because , as I pointed out, there just isn’t much out there about CM at the high school level and I want to encourage sharing about that if I can. And though there is a LOT more available about CM at the elementary level, I thought I’d [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., high school on Aug 19th, 2010 18 Comments »
Because descriptions of Charlotte Mason style education at the high school level are few and far between, I wanted to take a moment to describe what our Charlotte Mason-inspired high school experience is like. Keep in mind this is a reflection of MY interpretation of CM methods and in no way should be interpreted as [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., high school, nature study on Aug 1st, 2010 21 Comments »
You know, nature study is the one subject we have done really consistently for many years. It’s probably what we do best. Heck, the kids can pick up a field guide and identify an insect or wildflower before they can read. Their nature journals are stuffed full of bird sketches, tree rubbings, pressed flowers, mushroom [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., high school, history on Jul 29th, 2010 26 Comments »
How do you like that title? Pretty “epic” right? LOL! Well, this post is long enough to nearly qualify for epic status, but I hope you’ll bear with me. Anyway, today I share my plans for Superboy’s history studies for this coming year. He chose to study Greek and Roman history (excellent choice I must [...]
Posted in alaska, Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., high school, nature study, Superboy's projects on Feb 17th, 2010 5 Comments »
Happy Ash Wednesday everyone! We have SO MANY good things lined up, we really can’t wait! Today on a whim we attended the local “World of Work” job and career fair here in Sitka and I am so glad we did! It was a really cool event for high school students to connect with folks [...]
Posted in food, high school, science, Superboy's projects on Sep 29th, 2009 20 Comments »
And I documented the entire process. Well, most of it anyhow. See, it’s algae week in marine biology and one of his assignments was to make something edible from seaweed ( He has the wackiest teacher ever, you know). So Superboy decided to learn to make sushi. It’s something he’s been wanting to do for [...]
Posted in high school on Jun 9th, 2009 19 Comments »
Turn out the light, folks, the party is over. 8th grade is done. 9th grade begins. It’s now High school! And everyone knows this means it’s time to finally get serious once-and-for-all. Let me just start off by saying I kind of resent that someone, somewhere got to arbitrarily decide a start/end point for when [...]
