Posted in history, New Mexico on Mar 6th, 2011 9 Comments »
There once was a city on a hill… a great and ancient city where thousands lived within sturdy rock walls… where they ate and drank … and worshiped in the old ways… and embraced the new… for a while… until old clashed with new… as is so often the way of things… and even the [...]
Posted in history, JBug on Aug 10th, 2010 9 Comments »
I had written in an earlier post my plans for history for JBug. Part of that is listening to the audio version of Gombrich’s Little History of the World, and making a mini-poster for each chapter. These posters will then be hung on a line along the top of the wall, timeline style. Well, the [...]
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 Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., history, JBug on Jul 1st, 2010 11 Comments »
I was planning history for Superboy, who will be doing a year of Greeks and Romans( the subject of another post) and originally thought I’d do ancients with JBug too, thinking it would be easiest and most logical to keep them in the same era. But, every time I talk history with JBug she says [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., history on Mar 9th, 2010 8 Comments »
Our little homeschool, as you may have guessed from reading here, is unique. At least I like to think so. It isn’t that our “approach” to education is terribly unique. Lots of people are relaxed, eclectic, hands-on, unschoolish, whatever, home learners. I see it more and more every day, people loosening up, handing the educational [...]
Posted in Catholicism, Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., history on Nov 11th, 2007 2 Comments »
I know, it is really TODAY, but we are going to observe it tomorrow since today is Sunday. To be honest, we don’t usually do anything special for Veterans day. Don’t get me wrong, I do appreciate veterans and soldiers and the enormous sacrifices they have made and continue to make to this day. But [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., history, science, Superboy's projects on Oct 6th, 2007 26 Comments »
Superboy and I have been enjoying using Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything as our science and history text this year. We are currently reading the parts about scientists trying to figure out the age of the earth, geologic time, rock strata, and fossil hunting. Fascinating stuff, but it took me the longest [...]
Posted in alaska, Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., geography, history on Jul 7th, 2007 13 Comments »
Well…sort of! One of the things we love about Alaska is the wonderful cultural diversity of its people. Here in Kodiak, one afternoon’s activities brought us face to face with several cultures that are very new and fascinating to us. First stop today was a shop filled with wonderful Japanese imports. I drooled over the [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., geography, history, Superboy's projects on May 7th, 2007 4 Comments »
Superboy is continuing with his mini-unit on Japan. Today’s topic: Kanji You’ll never guess which one he chose to learn first. Wait…maybe you will! “Karate” of course! But it is a lot harder than it looks to get them looking right. After much practice he finally decided he had it down well enough to copy [...]
Posted in Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., history, Superboy's projects on Mar 31st, 2007 12 Comments »
Where does he come up with this stuff? And who in her right mind would allow it!?! Encourage it, even?!!! Oh, yeah. Me! Here is the answer to yesterday’s puzzler: What is that boy up to now? His assignment was to research methods and then build a miniature wattle and daub cabin. And this is [...]
