Linda's Homeschool WebLog
Saturday, December 15, 2001
 
Home schools work, so hands off
by Kathy W. Clement

A passage from the article:
"...one of the most important ingredients for a successful home school is autonomy. When parents are given the freedom to design and choose a course of study that is right for their individual children, when they are not under the scrutiny of a regulatory board or under pressure to make their homes into replicas of the local schools, when they are not bogged down by filling out forms and complying with arbitrary regulations -- then they find that providing an excellent education for their children at home is not only possible; it is a joyous and successful venture."

  11:52 AM  
Friday, December 14, 2001
 
Cimeron wants to learn Spanish. I have a Spanish Level One textbook and started studying it together with her yesterday. We had lots of fun doing it. Her homework is to learn the Spanish alphabet. I started learning the language when I was her age.

A few years ago we went through the Berlitz children's Spanish book, and for a while had Spanish fridays... trying to speak only that language, which got my kids used to hearing it.

Cimeron wants to learn Spanish because she's met people who only speak that language, and she wants to communicate with them... a very noble ambition, I think.

  11:33 PM  
Monday, December 10, 2001
 
The study time went pretty good today. Keith read to the kids - first from Dear Mad'am and later from a book about the Middle East. Aaron read out loud to Keith while Cimeron wrote a short, short essay:


They Beg For Food
by Cimeron

I chose to control-feed most of my pets. They were outraged by my choice. I tried to control their food but this outraged them even more. Soon my mom felt pity for the creatures and gave them their quest: food. The cats beautifully ate their food, purring with delight.


This is the rough draft - a good opportunity to discuss with her what redundancies are and why we should avoid them.

  8:29 PM  

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