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Family School: Trying to Master Pre-Algebra
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Teaching strategies and family humor from inexperienced-but-trying, homeschooling parents. July 23, 2014. Trying to Master Pre-Algebra. I’m sort of evolving my teaching-with-Khan plans as I go. My loose goal for the school year is to get both kids through the Algebra and Geometry curricula. Khan attempts to describe a student’s knowledge of each topic. A topic can be. To 2 or 3 different levels, or. They were maybe a little-disappointed to see that they were earning badges with names like. After the firs...
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Family School: September 2008
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Teaching strategies and family humor from inexperienced-but-trying, homeschooling parents. September 27, 2008. Consequences of the Fall. Jessica, at the end of a long hike, was tired, thirsty, and impatient: "I wish everything was perfect," she complained. I was about to remind her that nothing apart from God is when she added: "I wish when Eve saw that apple she just clapped her hands together and left it alone.". September 21, 2008. Taking Candy from a Baby. What are you doing? Just try the asparagus,"...
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Family School: November 2010
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Teaching strategies and family humor from inexperienced-but-trying, homeschooling parents. November 28, 2010. Last night we watched Searching for Bobby Fischer, the old, based-on-a-true-story movie about a chess prodigy whose parents struggle to support his genius while cultivating his humanity. I recommend it. It wasn't so long ago that our children lived only in the present. And the immediacy of their lives still surprises me. How lightly they move past an argument! I wonder if the immediacy of a game ...
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Family School: December 2010
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Teaching strategies and family humor from inexperienced-but-trying, homeschooling parents. December 24, 2010. Cooperative Board Games for Families. Learning to lose gracefully is a valuable lesson, but as my kids grow closer to competing with me as equals, losing stings them a little more, too. I had heard that some cooperative board games. Lurk in the specialty stores beyond Target. And Toys R Us. Here's how I categorize games in terms of competitiveness and cooperation:. Mentioned below, is an example.
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Family School: The Freebie Problem
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Teaching strategies and family humor from inexperienced-but-trying, homeschooling parents. August 29, 2014. I ran into my first real problem with Khan Academy the other night. Both kids struggled a lot with the Rate Problems 2. Section in Khan. These are problems that require multiple steps to solve, and a more complicated mental picture than the earlier word. Every now and then, however, Khan throws up a variant of the problem like this:. 8220;It’s like a freebie,” I said. “You don...This Jessica rememb...
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Family School: Shakespeare in Our Kitchen
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Teaching strategies and family humor from inexperienced-but-trying, homeschooling parents. January 30, 2011. Shakespeare in Our Kitchen. In sixth grade I thought I read Hamlet. Shakespeare was a famous name to me, nothing more, and I think I saw some personal challenge in reading this most famous of grown-up writers. When my book report came back, Mrs. Miller explained, very gently, that I hadn't read Hamlet. A whole book about.another book? Skip ahead 30 years, and Camille and I have just read Macbeth.
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Family School: How We Started Reviewing with Khan
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Teaching strategies and family humor from inexperienced-but-trying, homeschooling parents. August 27, 2014. How We Started Reviewing with Khan. So far I’ve had the kids doing Khan in parallel. This is what that looks like. They sit side-by-side, each at a laptop. Is he doing 12 times 15 in his head? As of August 1 they were both at about the 55% mark for pre-algebra. I hope they make it by Labor Day. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Poem Farm (Teacher writes and discusses a new poem each day).
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Family School: I Like 5 in a Row
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Teaching strategies and family humor from inexperienced-but-trying, homeschooling parents. August 27, 2014. I Like 5 in a Row. I remember—too clearly! 8212;what it felt like to open my math homework after coming home from school at 3:30. Or possibly from the school paper at 6:00. Or from the grocery store at 8:00. I was tired, math was the most tedious of all subjects, and there were so many exercises. Turn the page. Heave a sigh. Whisper an expletive. 72! Nathaniel, who has never, ever been careful abou...
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Family School: November 2008
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Teaching strategies and family humor from inexperienced-but-trying, homeschooling parents. November 08, 2008. Barbie and My Daughter on Math. I worked for Mattel when the Barbie doll was at its international peak, shortly after the Teen Talk Barbie. Math class is tough! But really it was not her political gaffes but the Disney Princesses and their saucier sisters, the Bratz dolls, that dethroned Barbie. 1 I ate the lettuce. 2 Math is magic. 3 Satan is underground. 4 I am sweet. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Family School: October 2008
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Teaching strategies and family humor from inexperienced-but-trying, homeschooling parents. October 28, 2008. Moonlight and Love Songs: Never Out of Date. I'm much too young to remember, but I seem to recall reading a line from Jimmy Durante. Somebody said to him "You're no Caruso! And he responded with something like: "It's true I ain't. But sometimes I sing so pretty I could break my own heart.". I'm shy to a fault and can't carry a tune, but I've always sung to the children. Dream a little dream of me.
