Homeschooling is Like Making Pancakes

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If you HAD to eat pancakes every day and there was just ONE recipe for making pancakes and you had to follow that recipe without making any variations, there would be potential for a whole lot of problems.

What if the recipe called for milk and your child was allergic to milk? Or eggs? Maybe you wanted a ‘healthier’ pancake, but weren’t able to change it. How would you do it? (more…)

10 Tips for Logging Technology

Written by Shari Popejoy
Home Educating Family Magazine/2013 Issue 2
www.hedua.com

Dr. Jay Wile, author of the Exploring Creation series and Science in the Beginning, presented a workshop at our local homeschool convention: “Homeschooling – The Environment for Genius,” where he endorsed allowing children to play with electronics. At least that’s what I heard! Evidently, one aspect that people of genius had in common from their childhoods was hours of uninterrupted playtime, and Dr. Wile agreed that electronics might provide value to children.

So, in an effort to foster genius tendencies in my son, I actually schedule an hour of Snap Circuits some days.  Like education wrapped up in a toy, interchangeable components combine, creating circuits to build radios, fans, lights, and alarms.  I log all that creative playtime as science (magnetism and electricity), math (patterns and sequences), or reference skills (interpreting circuit diagrams).

Some creative ways to utilize electronics during the school day that even a truancy officer would admire: (more…)

How Did You Wind Up Here?

Written by Carol Barnier
Published with Permission
www.TOSMagazine.com

“Carol,” my friend quizzically began, “what are you and your kids painting on the wall of your garage?”

My children and I were throwing large orange brush strokes over the white drywall. “This is our re-creation of the Aurora Borealis in Alaska!” I gushed.

“Wow. That’s . . . big. Are you guys doing a unit study on Alaska?”

“No. Actually we’re in a study about musicians from the Baroque period.”

“Then, why the wall?”

“Because the sea monkeys aren’t done breeding yet.”

“Come again?” (more…)