We didn't do much today. DD wasn't feeling well, so she spent most of the day just lying around. It rained all afternoon. I spent a lot of time just doing my own work at the computer. The kids read a...
My kids are 7 and 10 and have always been homeschooled. We're not unschoolers, but we're very relaxed. We have no daily, weekly, or annual schedule for when "school work" gets done. We don't use a packaged...
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Originally Posted by RCHOUDH
Hello,
In relation to summer homeschooling, I was just wondering at which time of day everyone tries to get the kids' studying out of the way?
It's random,...
I have a success story! I had unexplained fertility and eventually ended up trying IVF just before I turned 40. I got pregnant on my first IVF attempt, then miscarried. Tried it again just after turning 40, got...
I find Vermont a good place to homeschool. State homeschooling requirements are more stringent here than in a lot of other states, but they aren't really that burdensome. Standardized testing isn't required, which is...
I thought of another one: The Egypt Game. A really good book, but with girl protagonists, one of whom is black. (The fact that she's black is just barely mentioned; I don't think I even noticed it when I read the book as a...
Oh, I just thought of one. Bud, Not Buddy is about a 10 year old black boy. And The True Meaning of Smekday has a black girl protagonist. But those are both a big jump from the Magic Tree House level.
It's disturbing to realize how few I can think of. There's a beginning chapter book series by Alexander McCall Smith about an African boy named Akimbo. (This is one of the books.) Junie B. Jones has black and hispanic...
