Eclectic Parent

At one of his homeschool programs, C learned the song:
5 little hot dogs sitting in a pan,
the grease got hot,
and one went bam!
4 little . . . .
Tonight at dinner the variations started. It started with the same theme and worked its way to things like
5 little light sabers sitting in a hand,
one got shot […]

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Today we started with some books I picked up a few days ago. We’ve been selling books back to the used bookstore, so I bought The Grapes of Math and the Math Curse with some of the credit. After figuring our how many quarts in a gallon, pints in a quart, etc, it asked how […]

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Sometimes I’m asked where I get ideas. Homeschooling is certainly not done in a vacuum. There are books about homeschooling, books of resources, tons of website and support groups. One group I belong to is an online resource sharing group for unschoolers. No philosophical discussions about unschooling and its merits, just resources your family finds […]

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