Unschooling: Our November/December 2014 and January 2015 adventures
So it’s been a few months since I last posted an update on what we’ve been doing. In that time, we’ve had some major changes in our family and, to be honest, it would have been easy for me to just let...
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March better go out like a lamb, because I’m just plain tired of Pennsylvania’s winter. Disclosure: This post has some affiliate links. I only link to things we legitimately use and recommend, so if...
View ArticleBiohazard warning: In which we try to infect the world with a terrible plague...
Breaking news: Billions are infected with a disease known as Red Death, which was first discovered in Spain and spread to infect every person in the world in just over a year. Doctors didn’t have...
View ArticleUnschooling: Our March 2015 adventures
Sarah’s 15th birthday celebration included this new friend, “Snowy,” a white bear that matches two others we have, Wudge and Fudge. Wow! Things that happened in March: Sarah turned 15, we celebrated...
View ArticleDragonBox: A beautiful and fun way to explore algebra concepts
In our house, math had only been interesting, for a long time, to me. During her years in public school, Sarah considered math somewhere between, you know, a root canal and Brussels sprouts on her...
View ArticleThe ultimate guide to learning from movies and TV shows
I’m a movie and TV dork. I grew up watching classic Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation with my parents. My two favorite shows as a preteen were GhostWriter and the Where in the World is...
View ArticleUnschooling: Our April 2015 adventures
Sarah always loves to play dominoes, and she also loves using them to build things. April was, as our months go, a fairly calm one. We had a lot to do, but it wasn’t “big stuff” for the most part. We...
View ArticleUnschooling: Our May and June 2015 adventures
Part of the fun of visiting Centralia, an abandoned town with an abandoned section of highway now turned into a living art project, is finding your favorite graffiti! Well, I’m a little (a lot) behind...
View ArticleThe unschooled version of a 10th-grade-ish curriculum plan for 2015-16
This school year would be Sarah’s sophomore year if she were in public school, and it marks an interesting halfway point. We’ve homeschooled for three full school years (plus part of the year before),...
View ArticleUnschooling: Our July 2015 adventures
If last month had a theme, it would Arnold Schwarzenegger. Which is cool, because his birthday was in July. Sarah wants to do a celebrity birthday post about him, but we didn’t quite there before his...
View ArticleUnschooling: Our August and September 2015 adventures
With other amazing humans at the Agricultural and Industrial Museum during Yorkfest. We need more of these kind of people in our lives. It’s been quite a while since I’ve updated here, and a ton has...
View ArticleUnschooling: Our October 2015 and Free to Be adventures
The Wolfpack. Cam, Sarah, Chloe, Liv and Quinn spent almost every waking moment of Free to Be together. Now if only the others didn’t live in Arizona and Texas… WOW. This was a packed month, and I...
View ArticleUnschooling: Our November/December 2015 adventures
Here we all are! Dan, me (Joan), my mom (also Joan), Chris, and, of course, Sarah! Happy 2016! I am so thankful that we are finishing – and starting – yet another year unschooling, living and learning...
View ArticleUnschooling: Our January 2016 adventures
Welcome to February! In January we… survived a blizzard (30+ inches of snow), celebrated Dan’s 29th birthday, went to tea, went to many bookstores, talked about politics, adopted a cat, learned about...
View ArticleJames Bond birthdays: Daniel Craig and Timothy Dalton
Regular readers and friends will know right away that when it comes to heroes, Sarah thinks they don’t come any better than James Bond. So when it came time to join the iHomeschool Network’s...
View ArticleUnschooling: Our February 2016 adventures
Welcome to March! It’s finally starting to get warmer here in Pennsylvania, and that and some fun plans we had earlier in the month made February’s wrapup post a little later than I’d like. It was a...
View ArticleWhat should homeschoolers know about Adolf Hitler?
I’ve participated in the iHomeschool Network’s celebration of famous people’s birthdays for several years. Generally, Sarah helps me pick the famous people we’ll feature, and I give a quick overview of...
View ArticleUlysses S. Grant: Famous Civil War general and president
Lately, Sarah’s been increasingly interested in the upcoming presidential election, and how the government works in general. But even before this campaign kicked off (what seems like at least four...
View ArticleUnschooling: Our March 2016 adventures
As I finalize this post, it is a 40-degree day in April. At least it didn’t SNOW like it called for today. I can’t even. Thank goodness March was such a great month for unschooling, because the weather...
View ArticleThe ultimate guide to homeschooling with biographies
Everyone has a story to tell. Working in journalism for more than 15 years reinforced how much I believe this. Unfortunately, a lot of my traditional education did not. In science textbooks, famous...
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