JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Tonight Ted directed my attention to Philip Greenspun who asked Do home-schooled kids have better manners?. When I was a girl, my mother cautioned me You become like the person you marry. I think that the truth behind this observation is that people conform to the people around them. It’s not necessarily something intentional. But […]

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It happened that this week Abigail has been reading The Flag of the United States and so on this week of Flag Day, we’ve been discussing the history of the Stars and Stripes, the Pledge of Allegiance and the Star-Spangled Banner. In regards to the national anthem, I realized that the girls – outside of […]

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As part of the local Tracking the Otter series, we went to the beach on Thursday to study history with other homeschool friends. In 1841, American surveyor Captain Wilkes sailed into this bay with two vessels. He named the island Bainbridge. His crew documented some of the flora and fauna, writing up a report that […]

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A friend of mine recommended the homeschooling book Teaching the Trivium by Harvey and Laurie Bluedorn. I think what she appreciated the most was the authors’ emphasis on later learning – an idea that originated with Raymond and Dorothy Moore whom I read last year. The Bluedorns believe in Classical Education based on the Trivium […]

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You will soon discover it is you, not your children, who is being educated. — Chris and Ellyn Davis, I Saw the Angel in the Marble page 75 I didn’t know that cockle shells have muscle scars. I didn’t know that woodchuck burrows have toilet chambers. I learn something new every day. One of the […]

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