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Homeschooling Blog (Archive): September 2003
September 23, 2003
posted by Carol at
3:14 PM (Pacific)
Just going to post a quick rant here:
Why is it when I tell someone we homeschool that the immediate thing out of their mouth is
"ooohh. I *emphasis on this word* could never do THAT *again the emphasis* because......."
and then they proceed to list a laundry list of reasons why they don't homeschool their children or didn't homeschool their children when they did have children at home?
Why?
Do they really think I care? Do they really think it matters to me? This is generally from total strangers, people I've only just meet.
I don't care. It doesn't matter at all to me. I don't think any less of someone who doesn't homeschool nor do I automatically think more of someone who does.
I need to start looking for a Spanish program. I want to brush up my Spanish skills and I think it'd be fun for the boys to do too.
September 22, 2003
posted by Carol at
4:11 PM (Pacific)
gees.
If I post more content will those ads for owl pellets go away?? Enough all ready!
*snicker*
Henna and Mehndi are our current obsessions/projects. I have to get good henna powder though. I bought a small bag at the health food store and it just didn't work. It was a great disappointment. The boys were appeased with my buying some really awesome tattoo pens though. Ball point pens MADE to draw on oneself with. Littlest has this really incredible drawing down his lower leg of 2 snakes wrapped around a sword. Not bad for a 10 year old! He designed it himself. Oldest also drew an awesome humongous spiderweb on Littlests back. The two of them don't always get along the greatest (Oldest is 14.5 with little tolerance for the 10 year olds antics). It was quite awesome to see him drawing with great care for quite some time on his baby brothers back. Its a good design too.
Nothing like a good tattoo to bring the family back together. :)
September 16, 2003
posted by Carol at
6:05 PM (Pacific)
To construct a Shakespearean insult, combine one word from
each of the three columns below and preface it with "Thou":
+---------------+------------------+-----------------+
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
+---------------+------------------+-----------------+
| artless | base-court | apple-john |
| bawdy | bat-fowling | baggage |
| beslubbering | beef-witted | barnacle |
| bootless | beetle-headed | bladder |
| churlish | boil-brained | boar-pig |
| cockered | clapper-clawed | bugbear |
| clouted | clay-brained | bum-bailey |
| craven | common-kissing | canker-blossom |
| currish | crook-pated | clack-dish |
| dankish | dismal-dreaming | clotpole |
| paunchy | ill-breeding | lout |
| pribbling | ill-nurtured | maggot-pie |
| puking | knotty-pated | malt-worm |
| puny | milk-livered | mammet |
| qualling | motley-minded | measle |
| rank | onion-eyed | minnow |
| reeky | plume-plucked | miscreant |
| spongy | rude-growing | pignut |
| surly | rump-fed | puttock |
| tottering | shard-borne | pumpion |
| unmuzzled | sheep-biting | ratsbane |
| vain | spur-galled | scut |
| venomed | swag-bellied | skainsmate |
| villainous | tardy-gaited | strumpet |
| warped | tickle-brained | varlet |
| wayward | toad-spotted | vassal |
| weedy | unchin-snouted | whey-face |
| yeasty | weather-bitten | wagtail |
+---------------+------------------+-----------------+
posted by Carol at
6:00 PM (Pacific)
Unschooler: one who learns from life and love and great books and late morning conversations and big projects and eccentric uncles and mountains and mistakes and volunteering and starry nights - not from dull textbooks and sedative lectures and interfering homework.
Syn: Homeschooler, self-schooler, autodidact, rise-out.
From: The Teenage Liberation Handbook, Grace Llewellyn
September 1, 2003
posted by Carol at
10:28 AM (Pacific)
Middlest and Littlest are dissecting owl pellets.
UGH.
Its nasty. I refuse to go over and look at them. They smell bad from here, I won't go up close. They are having a blast with their dad though. They keep exclaiming over their finds. "ooooo, a jawbone." "WOW its a hip joint." "look at these teeny tiny bones, must be the rib cage."
In case you're wondering, owls eat their prey and then hack up the undigested remains in the form of a pellet. Its kinda like a hairball, but nastier. They're dry and dusty and they stink. My little scholars are picking these things apart and then will try and put the skeltons together and then figure out what it was the owl had for dinner. Could be a mouse or a sparrow or a mole. Lovely stuff. At least we can count today as a school day even though its labor day.
~carol m~
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