~When you are convinced that a student knows a subject thoroughly, you will
not dog him with more assignments nor try to make him regurgitate mental food he has already digested. Great education calls for few work-books.~
Home style Teaching, pg 21~ Many teachers thoughtlessly conclude that all children in the same class or of the same age should learn the same amount of the same things about the same time and that they will come off the assembly line in about the same shapes with about the same equipment. It never occurs to them that some youngsters are "triangular," some are "cylindrical," some are "rectangular," and some are oddly shaped. But they try to drive them all through the same "square" hole.~
Home style Teaching, pg 30
Friday, November 14, 2008
Raymond and Dorothy Moore Quotes
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
A Sad Mourning in the History of American
Monday, October 13, 2008
What's Been Going On in the Schoolroom
We did an experiment on these grapes. We set them out in the sun to see what the sun would do to them. We made up a chart and drew the changes in the grapes with each new day. We worked on our chart for four days.We also learned that the earth is spinning on it's axis, making day and evening. We made our own sun dial out of clay, a folder and a pencil. Sweetie got to see that the shadow of the pencil moved as the earth spun and turned away from the sun. She really enjoyed this experiment. :)
So that was what our third week in homeschooling was like in a nut shell. Of course there were the "regular subjects" such as math, reading, and writing. Sweetie painted a Monet type of painting of the sun. It turned out beautiful and we will be entering it in our county fair which will be happening next month. :)
Books in the Home
"Books in the home, even if they aren't necessarily read by the parents,
promote better scores not only in English, but also in science and math. The NEA
study indicated that shelves of books are more important than income or parental
educational background.Homes with 10 or fewer books yield the lowest test
scores, and the scores increase steadily with more books in the home, in
history, civics, math and science. The issue is not income, according to the
study, or even whether the parents have a college education. "Students of
high-school-educated parents living in homes with more than 100 books outscored
students with college-educated parents and 0-10 books in the home", the study
notes."A poor family, with books in the house, will produce a child, on the
average, who will do better in those subjects than a rich kid with no books in
the house...the data just shows the power of the home environment."This is one of the first things you see when you walk in the front door. It's no wonder my kids are so smart, huh? ;-)
Friday, October 10, 2008
A New Name
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Ooops! Correction in Order!
Due to my foggy mommy brain, and reading alot of materials on homeschooling, I mistakenly thought that Charlotte Mason coined the phrase "The Gentle Art of Learning"
I was deeply mistaken. It was Karen Andreola, author of "The Charlotte Mason Companion" that coined the phrase.
Her husband sent me a kind email informing me of this error, and asks that I rename the blog; Which I gladly will do.
I ask my sincerest apologies to anyone I may of misled regarding this phrase. And my deepest apologies to the Andreola family!