Birds of a feather stick together. That’s right – the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society are asking families, students, and people of all ages to help make an important contribution to conservation. Come join the12th annual Great Backyard Bird Count(GBBC), February 13-16, 2009.
“The Great Backyard Bird Count benefits both birds and people. [...]
While recently attending a community based homeschool meeting, I was once again faced with the opportunity to witness someone in perpetual confusion about the difference between registering or enrolling. Our home learning environment can provide us with many options and varied choices when it comes to making this decision – and ultimately much confusion. While [...]
Our summer holidays took us on a day trip to visit Science World, in Vancouver, B.C. This is an amazing place to take the kids and let them explore the wonders of science to their heart’s content. Pack a lunch and plan to spend the day here in order to explore all the fascinating science [...]
We wound up our school year with a final field trip that took us up island to the Pacific Northwest Raptors in Duncan, BC. Since we have been learning quite a bit about owls while reading The Guardians of Ga’hoole series (the author of these books has done extensive research about various species of owls [...]
The 10th edition of he Canadian Home Educators Blog Carnival is just around the corner. Join in on the weekly tour across Canada, and visit a fellow home educator in another province! The 10th edition of the Canadian Home Educators Blog Carnival will be posted Tuesday, June 24, with the deadline for submissions being Monday, [...]
Things are winding downhere as far as formal learning and reporting goes. Real learning; however, never stops around here. No, we do not homeschool year round, so to speak – but informally, I guess we never stop. Even though our last portfolios have been handed in, year end conferences have been attended, next year’s curriculum [...]
The Friday meme over at Heart of the Matter is along the theme of – What I wish I’d known. I always make a point of not reading others posts on the meme before I write my own. I hope for originality- it’s more like surprise. Like the grey hair I pulled out of my head [...]
Horray for critical thinkers! I came across this post this afternoon while having my cup of tea (and taking respite from attacking monster sized dust balls hiding underneath things) and I just had to share it with you. It is a rebuttal to Steven Downes argument. Stephen Downes, a senior researcher with the National Research Council [...]
Heart of the Matter Online Magazine features a weekly meme called Field Trip Tuesday. This meme gives homeschoolers a global view of a variety of ideas for homeschool field trips. Since we’ve had a variety of field trips over our five years of homeschooling, I’ve been sharing some ideas from last year’s archives. This weeks [...]
What I mean is….get connected.
I often meet new homeschool moms who have started to homeschool and have run into new obstacles and frustrations. Oh, they are many – and we have all had them from time to time. The problem comes not from the obstacles themselves, but rather from being left to our own devices [...]
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