Watching My Back
June 3rd, 2010
Today Punksin and I had our first history lesson using K12. We’d previously been using another curriculum provider for history and although my bookworm self loved it, I realized that it was a tad too much reading and not enough doing-of-other-stuff. We had to do a little review to be sure she knows all they [...]
My Latest Obsessions…
May 25th, 2009
…are Impressionist art and the Peloponnesian War. Don’t ask. I could tell you but I don’t feel like doing that much writing just now. Suffice it to say that both of them were “birthed” from what I’ve been teaching Punksin. This is one of the things I love about teaching her – I am learning [...]
Unique Homeschool Materials For Sale?
May 15th, 2009
If you didn’t know, I homeschool my kids. No, I am not any kind of fundamentalist. I pay my taxes and am not trying to create my own nation. I do not own a gun. I homeschool my kids because Punksin is too smart to continue pre-K and, in the town where I live, the [...]
Santa Visits!
December 3rd, 2007
I’ve been a little teed off at Punksin’s school since we got the December calendar. Tomorrow, it says in bright letters, is the Chanukkah celebration. Then in a couple of weeks they’ll be celebrating Kwanzaa. The day after that, it notes, is when “Santa Visits“. And that, folks, is it. I am not a religious [...]
