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Raves & Rants of a Homeschool Mom: November 2009
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Saturday, November 21, 2009. Quick restart of Big Bang machine stuns scientists. By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS, Associated Press Writer. GENEVA – Scientists moved Saturday to prepare the world's largest atom smasher for exploring the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a year of repairs. The machine was heavily damaged by a simple electrical fault in September last year. The European Organization for Nuclear Research has taken the restart of the collider s...
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Fanny Harville's Unschool Academy: Cello Lessons
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Fanny Harville's Unschool Academy. She ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry.". Tuesday, April 28, 2015. Earlier this year, N. began taking cello lessons from a friend of ours. Given N.'s love of playing and writing music, Tim had been encouraging him to take up another instrument in addition to piano. Why cello? He has to have free time too! What we do all day. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I am a professor of 18th-century British literature and homeschooling mom to an 11-year-old boy.
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Fanny Harville's Unschool Academy: Third Grade Read-Aloud Chapter Books
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Fanny Harville's Unschool Academy. She ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry.". Thursday, June 6, 2013. Third Grade Read-Aloud Chapter Books. Reading aloud is the central method and principle of our homeschooling approach. Tim reads autobiographies. History, and science. To N (and N. takes his turn reading paragraphs aloud) daily. I read fiction to N. daily. The books we experience together through reading aloud become part of the texture of our days. N and I also really liked Winter Holiday.
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Fanny Harville's Unschool Academy: Timeline Quiz
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Fanny Harville's Unschool Academy. She ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry.". Thursday, May 7, 2015. Most of the history we've studied with N. has been through reading aloud, and through travel. Over the past few years, Tim and N. have read together most of Joy Hakim's History of US. They've also read some British history. We talked a lot about French history when we spent a month in Paris. They dip into A History of the World in 100 Objects. B Rise of domesticated crops and animals.
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Fanny Harville's Unschool Academy: "I'm so glad it's wick!"
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Fanny Harville's Unschool Academy. She ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry.". Friday, April 18, 2014. I'm so glad it's wick! A few years ago an acquaintance mentioned that she reads The Secret Garden. Every spring with her daughters. I was inspired to copy this lovely tradition and this is my third spring reading it aloud to N. We are loving it as much as ever. The Blossoms of XXX XXX" An essay by N. No The trees are just as beautiful as before. A "puffball" cherry tree in bloom. Here are...
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Fanny Harville's Unschool Academy: James Herriot at Low Tide
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Fanny Harville's Unschool Academy. She ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry.". Wednesday, December 22, 2010. James Herriot at Low Tide. Our homeschool had been in high-tide mode. Books, and Homer Price. Then as he started feeling just a little bit better, he and Tim resumed their reading of James Herriot's books, which they've been working their way through all fall. They've read All Creatures Great And Small. All Things Bright and Beautiful. All Things Wise and Wonderful. 12/23/10, 6:46 AM.
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Fanny Harville's Unschool Academy: A Kindergarten Year in Chapter Books
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Fanny Harville's Unschool Academy. She ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry.". Tuesday, June 15, 2010. A Kindergarten Year in Chapter Books. As I wrote last summer. So I've noted if the book was read aloud by Tim. The books are listed roughly in the order in which we read them. I am keeping records both at LibraryThing. Click the "chapter book" tag for complete book info) and at Listography. What should we read next? The Five Little Peppers by Margaret Sidney. Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski.
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Fanny Harville's Unschool Academy: 4th-Grade Read-Alouds
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Fanny Harville's Unschool Academy. She ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry.". Tuesday, June 3, 2014. At this time every year, I post a list of "chapter books" we've read aloud to N. over the past year. I track our reading at Listography. This year, we read fewer titles overall because we had less read-aloud time (many late bedtimes due to outings! The highlights of our reading this year. By Phillipa Pearce. Reading Great Northern. And The Railway Children. More Adventures of the Great Bra...
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Fanny Harville's Unschool Academy: Book Bribing
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Fanny Harville's Unschool Academy. She ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry.". Monday, February 10, 2014. Internet, I did something I'm not proud of. I bribed my son to read. As you know if you're a faithful reader of this blog, I've long been perplexed by my son's nonlinear reading habits. But it drives me nuts that he starts and abandons many chapter books. We don't assign any reading to him as part of his "school" work, yet I find myself pestering him to continue reading a book I kn...
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Fanny Harville's Unschool Academy: Skipton Castle and the Yorkshire Dales
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Fanny Harville's Unschool Academy. She ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry.". Monday, July 29, 2013. Skipton Castle and the Yorkshire Dales. We began our European adventure. With a visit to western Yorkshire. We went to York two years ago on our trip to England. And we love York) but this was our first visit to the Dales. We attended a lovely family wedding near the village of Burnsall looking out over the Dales and thought a lot about N.'s beloved James Herriot. So he was geeking out ove...
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