Learning Through Life: Happy Halloween

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Happy Halloween

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Brilliant Creations said...: OMG Tooooooooooooo cute and funny!!! I love the hair, BTW !!!; October 28, 2010 5:36 PM

Us in a (Small) Nutshell

We've been homeschooling for a good 13 years. My daughters are 16 (Rockstar), 13 (Ace) and 6 (Bird). We've run the gamut on styles and methods of home education through the years, handouts to hands-on, Saxon to edutainment. We're a secular, eclectic family, so we avoid most religious-based curricula. (Though, I admit I've been known to pick through religious-based workbooks when I couldn't find what I needed to aid the learning process elsewhere.) We've continued to use the "What Your __ Grader Needs to Know" series of books as a guide. I also keep tabs on the Oklahoma PASS guidelines, using them as a sort of "checklist" to make sure we're meeting - and exceeding - the state's public education standards. Since the birth of my youngest (and last) child, "routine" has been next to impossible but we keep trying. Flexibility is a must in our Family Academy.

Only the educated are free.~Epictetus~ Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.~Plato~ It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think, if that is possible, and always to think for themselves.~Robert Hutchins~ Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire.~W. B. Yeats~ The highest result of education is tolerance.~Helen Keller~ Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.~Martin Luther King, Jr.~ If you use your mind, and take a step at a time, you can do anything that you wanna do.~Steve, Blue's Clues~

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