Over at Heart of the Matter, their weekly Friday meme is What Are You Thankful For? Being a Canadian resident, our Thanksgiving has come and gone, but never the less, thankfulness is not something reserved only for national holidays. Last year, I had written a post entitled What Are You Thankful For?, and shortly thereafter, [...]
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November 8, 2008
Where do you homeschool?
Over at Heart of the Matter, their weekly Friday meme is “Where Do You Homeschool?” Yes, today is Saturday, but hey what can I say? We homeschool – gotta be flexible, right?
I actually participated in a similar meme once before, showing primarily our newly renovated kitchen – which resulted in a much more efficient use of [...]
March 21, 2008
What I wish I’d known my first year of homeschooling.
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 [...]
February 19, 2008
Field Trip Tuesday
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 [...]
February 15, 2008
Friday Meme: Where Do You Homeschool?
We do most of our homeschooling at our kitchen table – which was until rather recently, a little on the small side. A couple of years ago we decided it would be better financially to renovate rather than move. Our small, cramped galley style kitchen had become much to small and there was not efficient [...]
January 25, 2008
Are You Filling a Pail, Or Lighting A Fire?
This weeks meme from Heart Of The Matter is to write our thoughts about the quote, “
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
- William Butler Yeats
What a great quote. Could be a potentially controversial one too, don’t you think? I’ve read similar ones over the years from people [...]
