On our trip around the world, we are attempting to sweep through Asia. It is such a diverse continent, that we chose just a few countries to look at in depth: China, India and Israel. I just keep reminding myself that our purpose it to provide them an overview. It is so hard to not […]
Archives for October 2010
Learning in Layers
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how learning occurs in layers. As each layer is placed down, it enriches and enables the next layer to be added. Layers is the whole reason why we embarked this summer on our study of world geography. As we studied Native Americans and frontiersmen this last spring, I […]
That Kind of Day
I wasn’t feeling great today… …So we watched Aladin this morning instead of doing anything productive. That counts as part of our Asia study, right?
Food sculptures
All of this talk of food, nutrition and teaching our children, reminded me of something my sister had written a while back. She has graciously agreed to ‘guest post’ here. What a powerful lesson in modeling to our children and yet also holding expectations lightly and allow them to express themselves artistically in an open-ended, […]