JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Dean Esmay today wrote out some of his random thoughts about education, and in the process, made a great case for homeschooling (excerpts): As to what would have made school better for me, even as a child: a lot more time to explore on my own would have helped enormously. In my last couple of […]

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A friend loaned us Frances Cavanaugh’s Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance, historical fiction for children, and we had fun reading it together. The girls learned a lot and I did too. Two observations: 1) According to the book, Lincoln’s wife Mary Todd was a woman who declared she would marry “a man who will be […]

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I know that homeschooling is supposed to be creative but this is getting a bit much… Practicing penmanship on the side of our van… Perhaps we should add the study of automobile cleansing to our curriculum….

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Dean’s coming to town today. We already had other plans but I wish I could take the girls and go. Not that three little kids could probably sit quietly during the Town Hall meeting without wiggling or screaming (ha!). What I want to do though is to educate them about the political process. The younger […]

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Yesterday I skimmed through Linda Dobson’s Homeschooling The Early Years. Although I already knew and have lived some of what she wrote I found some helpful sections. The chapters I appreciated the most were practical ones: Accommodating Younger Learners (how to homeschool with baby siblings), Keeping House (and Sanity!) as You Homeschool (organizational ideas) and […]

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