We are eclectic homeschoolers, incorporating the traditional as it serves. Acknowledging that H.o.p. is ever and always learning we still set the first weekday after Labor Day as when our “schooling year” starts, which gives me the impetus to make August a month for gathering materials. We’ve been prepping the past couple of weeks, getting in gear for fuller immersion.
So today was H.o.p.’s first day of the new school year and he was pleased with how things went. The glitches were mainly technical. We are for some reason having technical problems on his new-old computer. It is having terrible problems accessing a site we rely on for language and math. First it wouldn’t let us log in either in Firefox or IE. I disabled Norton privacy and it would let us in in IE only but wouldn’t show images. I went in and added the website in the advanced area in Norton that should allow us all access to it, and cut back on the privacy setting. We could not access it at all. I went back and disabled Norton privacy and now we couldn’t access it in IE but could access it in Firefox in their available troubleshooting mode. But then when we closed out and tried to return later it said our session was over and wouldn’t let us back in. That was a pain. Anyway, we employed every thing that I knew to do and every suggestion their website had to offer for trouble-shooting and things remain problematic. It’s confusing as he’s using my old computer and I never had any trouble and he never had any trouble on his old computer.
The day started with homophones and ended with pleiosaurs and looking up Loch Ness once again because H.o.p.’s primary interest is in all things “Monsters!”
Whatever subject I introduce to him, the immediate response is, “Are there monsters?!”
Today I told him that the modern world is very unimaginative in its understanding of monsters and if he will but follow my bread crumbs through various seemingly unrelated topics he will find that so-called monsters abound.
As a footnote, I wonder why I’m using Wikipedia much more than my subscription to Encyclopedia Britannica. I wonder why they’re not making better use of images and interactive features.
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