Having TOG in my hands inspired a flurry of new plans. It also gave me a neat and tidy structure to work within. TOG consists of four units which are each 9 weeks long. So, I’ve decided to do my planning in 9 week chunks.
My challenge in the past has been in being “ready” for [...]
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A New Plan
Posted in Homeschool Planning, Homeschool Set-up on June 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Writing Box works!
Posted in Day to day homeschooling, Homeschool Set-up on June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Writing is not something that comes joyfully to any of my kids. I thought it would be effortless – I like to write; therefore, they should all like to write. Not so.
My goal this year is to turn that attitude around. I want them to enjoy writing, to write for fun, and to write a [...]
The Bird Watching Basket
Posted in Homeschool Set-up, tagged bird watching, learning center, nature notebook on May 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In our last home we had a bay window with a window seat. It was a great place for bird watching. I arranged all of our books and other nature-ish things there and the kids would sit in the window and watch the birds at the feeder outside.
We moved over a year ago and it’s [...]
I have given up on SWR
Posted in Homeschool Set-up on May 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I never really thought about teaching spelling until I began teaching my second child how to read. My eldest, Daisy, spells. She just spells. She has no need for someone to teach her rules; she just spells the words. She knows if she doesn’t know how to spell something and she’ll ask someone to help [...]
The New and Improved Math Lab
Posted in Homeschool Set-up, Math on May 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Well, we moved house and that gave me an excuse to revamp our math lab. That and the fact that I said I’d do a workshop on Creating a Mathematical Environment at BC CHEC. The new house gave me the space and the convention gave me the deadline. I also wanted to design this math [...]
Creating a Math Lab
Posted in Homeschool Set-up, Math on September 27, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Most of us work very hard at creating a literature rich environment for our children. Not many of us work as hard at creating an environment that fosters a love of math. Setting up a math-lab is an easy way to make math fun and accessible.
I had a math lab for my older kids, but [...]
Philosophy of Education
Posted in Homeschool Set-up on August 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
It’s important to know why you’re doing what you’re doing. Homeschooling comes with challenges and set-backs. That ideal, pie-in-the-sky vision you had of what homeschooling would look like will not happen everyday. There will be days when you’ll wonder why on earth you even started homeschooling in the first place and there will be days [...]
Our Learning Environment
Posted in Homeschool Set-up on July 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
My favourite room in the house is our family room. It’s where we homeschool, for the most part.
This is the back of the room. The big table is where Daisy, Sam and I usually work. You can see some of the preschool table on the right. That’s where Harry works and that’s also where the [...]
