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Halloween 2010

Ingrid @ November 1, 2010 # No Comment Yet

What I had the good sense to keep track of last week: Sunday We loaf around the house today since we went hiking the day before and it’s chilly outside. The boys are really into pretend play revolving around Naruto. Vic goes out to get last minute costume stuff for Halloween. Kamikaze and Tremendo will [...]

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Week in review October 17, 2010 – October 23, 2010

Ingrid @ October 25, 2010 # 2 Comments

Sunday Sweet Coco and I play alone for about 30 minutes singing nursery rhymes. He enjoys Pat-a-Cake because cake is one of his favorite subjects but he absolutely loves Row Your Boat. We sit facing eachother and I pull his arms forward and back while we sing. At the third verse, “If you see an [...]

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Classical Education and Autism Guest Post at The Well-Trained Mind

Ingrid @ September 7, 2010 # No Comment Yet

I wrote a guest post for The Well-Trained Mind blog that details how I worked with my children to take them from having no interest in books to enjoying looking through books and being read to called, Learning from Books When Your Kids Could Care Less: Classical Education and Autism. © copyright 2010 www.renegade-scholar.com Classical [...]

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New “Year”, New “Method”

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 [...]

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