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Ingrid @ July 29, 2009 # One Comment
Right about this time of year is when a lot of Massachusetts Homeschoolers send in their letter of intent to the local school district. Basically, Massachusetts requires that parents send a letter of intent every year before the start of the school year in September stating their desire to homeschool their child and the [...]
Ingrid @ July 3, 2009 # No Comment Yet
There has been a lot of coloring over here. Tremendo has started coloring and writing some letters too. The letters he’s written so far are M, L, and the first letter of his name. He really likes M and L because of Mario and Luigi. We’ve been working with Handwriting Without Tears‘ [...]
Ingrid @ March 8, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Here’s a little article that succinctly sums up why homeschooling works for us: Why Homeschooling Lowers Costs In Time, Money and Stress.
© copyright 2009 www.renegade-scholar.com Homeschooling Lowers Costs In Time, Money, Stress
Ingrid @ February 12, 2009 # No Comment Yet
So Tremendo and I were finishing up school when I took out our alphabet flash cards and proceeded hold them up, name each letter and wait for him to repeat after me. He looked past and around them and reached toward the food flash cards that I use with Sweet Coco. I keep insisting with [...]
Ingrid @ February 7, 2009 # No Comment Yet
After three chapters of history following The Well-Trained Mind protocol, I’ve decided to share what I think. We started with the Ancients as the book recommends. The basic formula is that you do three hours of history per week. The book gives you sample schedules of how to divide the reading and narration expected for [...]
Ingrid @ January 15, 2009 # One Comment
These past couple of months Tremendo’s conversational skills have been emerging. I’m quite pleased to report some back talk.
Me: “Put your shoes away.”
Him: “No!”
Me: “TV is all done.”
Him: “Don’t touch the TV!”
There was also this…
He spent quite a long time working on this one because he didn’t figure how to make limbs that were not [...]
Ingrid @ November 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, Revised and Updated Edition is a hefty book that outlines a classical home education from preschool up to the twelfth grade. Susan Wise Bauer, a professor of literature and writing, was homeschooled by her mother Jessie Wise and this book is based on the [...]
Ingrid @ October 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Up until this point I’ve been homeschooling on the fly. I’d read about some interesting book, buy it and then try to apply it to the subject it addressed. For instance I settled on Saxon for Math and Phonics and then went about using them. That was fine until I noticed that there were certain [...]
Ingrid @ July 23, 2008 # 2 Comments
Ok, it’s clear that I have them. Sometimes when Vic decides to give Kamikazee an assignment I feel like he’s coming to my turf and doing it wrong. Granted, I’ve spent 3 years instructing him myself with little input thus far. But still, I know that children can have many teachers and the differing [...]
Ingrid @ June 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I’m starting to introduce Tremendo to using the computer. He’s just now at the place where he can regulate himself long enough to follow my instructions when it comes to clicking on the mouse where I direct and typing the keys when asked. Today a quick search for “online matching games” produced this [...]
