Here’s my final post on Gatto’s Guerrilla Curriculum and ideas I have for implementing it. Just as a reminder, Gatto believes every child’s learning experience should include (I have crossed out the items previously discussed in last weeks’ post): Substantial community service Apprenticeships Parent Partnerships on school time Team projects (gardens, cross-age tutoring, talent shows,……
Category: Homeschooling
Victorian Unit Study: Great Expectations
You know when something happens and the timing is so good it could only have been God? Well, this is how I feel about this review of Progeny Press. This summer we are focusing ten weeks on the children’s writing at the same time as learning about the Victorian Times. When the Great Expectations E-Guide came up,……
Email Pen Pals, Anyone?
L13 has been incredibly blessed to have been approached by long time readers of my blog, asking if she could maybe become email pen pals with their respective daughters. She has had one for a few months now and they email each other almost daily and she is about to begin writing to another pen……
New Addition to the Family!
So Gary came home from work a little later this morning and told me he had gone to Reading after work to collect a surprise for the family. The mind boggled because we hadn’t talked about anything we needed or even wanted recently……. Apparently he had seen it on Ebay and bidded on it. The……
Implementing Gatto’s Guerrilla Curriculum in our Homeschool Part 2
Yesterday I shared some of the ideas the family had about increasing the community service the older ones do, thoughts about team projects they could do together and with friends, in addition to everyone’s thoughts on running their own pet sitting business. We are using Gatto’s Guerrilla Curriculum as inspiration for next year’s schooling. Just……
Implementing Gatto’s Guerrilla Curriculum in our Homeschool
Yesterday I shared with you a quote which had inspired me a little and when I read it out to the family, they were likewise pretty excited. Here are the main points of Gatto’s guerrilla curriculum. Gatto believes in every child’s learning experience there should be: Substantial community service Apprenticeships Parent Partnerships on school time……
What Kind of Homeschooler Am I, Anyway? Part 6
“Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges; it should allow you to find values which will be your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever……
Review of MaxScholar
MaxScholar offers a variety of activities for students to improve reading skills with their MaxScholar Reading Intervention Programs. R5 has been blessed to have 12 months access to their K-2 program for 3 to 7 year olds, and her reading has just gone from strength to strength. What is the MaxScholar K-2 Program? Well, I’m glad……
Really?!
Charlotte, after an afternoon at the swimming pool with her friends, wearing exactly the same swimming costume as her twin sister: ‘We were admiring our swimming costumes in the mirror before we went in, and, oh my goodness Mummy, we looked so alike no-one could have told us apart…..’ Paused for a thoughtful second: ‘It’s……
Interview with B5
And my last interview with my littlest. How have you felt about this year? Really good because I love doing school with my Mummy, and my Granny What have you learnt about yourself this year? I don’t really know What are you most proud of this year? Loads of things….my art, especially my art……
Interview with A7
How have you felt about this year? It has been an amazing because Mummy and Granny are teaching me. What have you learnt about yourself this year? I really love school and that makes me feel brilliant. What are you most proud of this year? My writing and reading What are you least proud of……
Interview with C13
How have you felt about this year? I have loved this year. I was particularly enlightening because I found out last summer during our Shakespeare summer that I love to perform and this is becoming one of my passions. What have you learnt about yourself this year? I have discovered that I can do……
Interview with L13
How have you felt about this year? It has been fun, relaxing, stress free, easy but exhausting; I would say, for me, pretty much one of the best years of school so far What have you learnt about yourself this year? If I can put my mind to drawing I can produce some pretty good……
Interview with Thomas, aged 14
How have you felt about this year? It has been fast, busy, tiring at times, productive, eye-opening and rewarding. And I guess exciting because I have found a love of music I didn’t know I had. What have you learnt about yourself this year? I am capable of a lot if I put my mind……
Precious Moments
Last week began with a pink piggy party! Nik’s son is mad about pigs and as it was his 12th birthday coming up we decided to celebrate in pink piggy style! I wasn’t entirely sure how a 12-year-old boy would react to such an onslaught of pink, but I needn’t have worried, he loved it……