Search results for: “homeschool”
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Oops…thar she blows!
Here I have in my Netflix-borrowing hands a DVD of “Cat Women of the Moon”, which far surpasses any expectations I had for it, and I’d planned to blog my giddy, glorious wonder of this film on Friday. But then I opened up the Bloglines and what met my eyes but Pharyngula’s “Demand higher standards…
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A line of rationalizations of your typically bad consumer, which is me
We just spent $700 on eyeglasses (and exams) for the adults at “America’s Best” and I’m still happy, at least for the moment. I’m the super easy consumer who tries to never buy anything but when I do I always expect incompetence and no accountability and as long as you are friendly and smile and…
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Fresh pipe
Wherein You Learn From My Mistakes, Hopefully, But Probably Not Because I Never Did (should be the name of this blog). Well, for several hours this morning our kitchen sink got needed attention from the landlord and his helper, G. (who I call the Super and for all intents and purposes is). Turns out there…
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When Oscar was Bullied
“Go back to bed,” Marty said before leaving for the studio yesterday. I tried but instead broke out the Throat Coat, hoping that might help. First cold of the season and I’m pissed. I don’t like Throat Coat, it’s so sweet. And it didn’t help. More money more money money spent on homeschooling materials but…
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Yes, we love Brainpop and Brainpop Jr., but have a suggestion
And speaking of obnoxious humor that kids love (see above post), Brainpop knows how to make use of it with Tim and his robot Moby to draw kids in and capture their interest while dispensing science knowledge (and health and social studies and math and technology). Why do I bring this up? I can’t be…
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Portugese Man O' War were a hit
Brainpop is launching Brainpop Jr., geared for K-3. Right now it is free but will later be subscription. H.o.p. and I realized it was there today and he’s been tooling around it this evening and is so far enjoying it. Agh, it will be a separate subscription service from their regular Brainpop. More bucks. Maybe.…
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oh, the world, y'know, it's just so complex…
The world’s so damn complex. I’m always rooting around for possible homeschooling resources and today I found a number of education videos up at learner.org, a place I was unfamliar with. Don’t recollect how I happened on them, what exactly I was looking for at the time. So I selected one on history and maps…
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First day of school year for us was today
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…
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Vetoed
I’d chosen a Nova piece on volcanoes for tonight’s viewing pleasure. It showed briefly people fleeing the eruption of a volcano, the soles of their feet burned through, and stacks of dead bodies. H.o.p.: You’re my mom, you’re not supposed to show me things like that. It’s too disturbing for an eight-year-old to see. Enough…
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I don’t know why I feel like I’ve done nothing
My computer, which had a bad Windows install with which I’d been living for a while, finally went crash and I ended up without it a couple of times over the past several weeks. The thing is everything is on my computer. All the work I do is on my computer. Words. Art. Websites I…
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First library book
Yeah, I know, all other homeschoolers have their kids using the library like crazy, but until this year H.o.p. firmly believed in never a lender or borrower being. He would have nothing to do with it. Not the library, but the idea of lending and borrowing. What’s yours is yours and what’s mine is mine.…
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How to buy modern furniture
If you don’t know how to buy modern furniture, this 1952 Dupont ad will tell you how. I’m curious, but not curious enough to purchase it. Our source for modern furniture is now Ikea, which finally arrived in Atlanta. All our old lamps, collected from various attics, basements and closets of places we’d lived in…