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Tag Archives: books
My penultimate post for 2011
We’re heading back to New York tomorrow morning, and depending on how long the wait at the Holland Tunnel is when we finally reach the city, (it’s torture, because we can see our building – so close and yet so … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged Adele, Amy Adams, anna dressed in blood, blog, books, born this way, Castle, dennis prager, dooce, education of millionaires, enrique iglesias, Grimm, happiness is a serious problem, hawaii five-o, Hugh Dancy, I like it, Jane Eyre, Joss Whedon, kendare blake, Lady Gaga, learning, legend, life learning, marie lu, maroon 5, michael ellsberg, Michael Fassbender, moves like jagger, movies, Nina Arianda, scott westerfeld, Seth Godin, Stephen King, The Help, the muppets, the near witch, Tribes, tv, uglies, unschooling, Venus in Fur, victoria schwab
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Some stuff I’m enjoying, and maybe you will too…
BOOKS 98% of the books I’ve been reading lately are of the YA genre. (That’s Young Adult, in case you’re unfamiliar.) It’s a label that should never stop someone of the OA (Older Adult) variety from picking one up. … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Learning, Life Learning, Movies, Unschooling
Tagged alaska, alfie kohn, articles, book club, books, education, gabrielle zevin, hallelujah chorus, huffington post, leviathan, life learning, Maya, movies, pretties, scott westerfeld, teenink, the muppet show, the muppets, uglies, unschooling, videos, washington post
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Unschooling is not a methodology
One of the problems in discussing unschooling with people is that they expect it to be a ‘method by which we educate our children’. And such an expectation is not unreasonable, because the idea that children can grow and learn … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Homeschooling, Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged books, cooking, education, frankenstein, homeschooling, kitchen, learning, life learning, literature, math, methodology, science, unschooling, wendy priesnitz
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What we did this summer
Remember the first day of school when the teacher would ask you to write about what you did over the summer? One year, it may have been when I started first or second grade, I wrote about finding a nest … Continue reading
Posted in Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged Ben, books, Hurricane Irene, Indiana, life learning, Maya, overnight, playground, pool, rattlesnakes, school, summer, unschooling, video, waterpark
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Live. Read. Learn.
Maya read The Help by Kathryn Stockett last week. I think she read it faster than I did. She was motivated by the fact that the movie has come out and wanted to finish the book before seeing the film … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged Ben, books, Kathryn Stockett, learning, life learning, Maya, more, PA, The Help, unschooling
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Stephen King, and Maya’s book list
When I originally subscribed to the magazine “Entertainment Weekly” it was primarily because Stephen King wrote a regular column for them titled “The Pop of King”. (Clever) I’ve never read any of King’s novels all the way through – they … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged Avi, books, Eleven, Elsewhere, Hunger Games, learning, life learning, Maze Runner, Mother Daughter Book Club, reading, Rick Riordan, Stephen King, Suzanne Collins, unschooling
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Reading for fun
I spent some time in Barnes & Noble this afternoon, picking up a book for Ben and looking for another for Maya. Both my kids love to read and so we spend an inordinate amount of time in bookstores and … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged books, Collins, Hunger Games, life learning, morals, reading, Rowling, unschooling, writing
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Off topic, because it’s all about me (and the book I’m reading)
Every now and then I come across a book that is so good it makes following a normal routine difficult. Like I start thinking, “Please, I can too walk and read at the same time!” Or do dishes and read, … Continue reading
Posted in Life Learning, Unschooling
Tagged basketball, books, Deborah Harkness, joy, life learning, unschooling, vampire, writing
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