If there is one thing I wish we’d done more of in our early homeschooling years, it would be International Day. In our children’s young lives, it was a way to travel on a tight budget and expose them to other parts of the world. We ‘visited’ Australia, Germany, South...
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Growing Things Part III – Processing
Now that you've planted and picked fruit and veggies, aside from eating them raw, what else can you do? My personal favorite is jam. Making jam is a simple and uncomplicated means of preserving fruit, and can be used as a spread on toast, in tarts or pies, and even...
Growing Things Part I – Planting
Learning where food comes from is an important part of educating children. I remember when I lived in London, a prominent political person in South Africa was asked where she would get her groceries if the farmers gave up their farms. Her response was the name of the local grocery...
Wonderful West Trip
We recently had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see some of the wonderful west of our country. We took an eleven-week trip, spending about half of the nights on a bed (in hotels or with friends and family), and the other half on the floor in our tent. It was the...
Fishing in Ocean City
Homeschooling. What does that mean to you? Perhaps you know someone who homeschools. Or perhaps you have simply heard the term. Or perhaps you are interested in homeschooling or are already doing so. What does it look like? How do you “do” homeschooling? The fundamental basis for science is observation....
Home School Computing – Picking the perfect Chromebook
In my last article wrapping up computing options for homeschoolers, I mentioned that my platform of choice, at least as a starting point, would be Chromebooks and Chrome OS. I’d like to add a little meat to those bones and help you pick something that’s going to get them going...
White Sands National Monument
As former Vermonters, we were quite enthralled with our trips to White Sands National Monument. The sand-fine gypsum was unbelievably like the snow we experienced annually in Vermont. But this wasn’t for shoveling. Or plowing. Or slipping on because it had become a sheet of ice with the sustained below-freezing...