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Category Archives: Home School
“First, I’d like to make a forest”
If you’re a parent of children between the ages of 4 and 8, you are perhaps familiar with the stuffed animals called Webkinz. These are small toys–dogs, cats, sheep, birds, etc–and every purchase also brings with it an access code for a 1 year membership to the online Webkinz World. Registering on the site allows [...]
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Sustenance
On Sunday the girls and I made an apple pie. My wife handed us a bowl full of apples and told us to make something delicious. “Dad, we’re going to have to make a pie, and do it from scratch.” I let the girls do almost every step by themselves, with the exception of peeling [...]
Fruit
Our weekend was punctuated with experiences related to fruit. It began with the most enjoyable visit to our local farmer’s market I’ve had, since we were all four able to ride the 10Km on bicycle. Tricycles, training wheels, and now rails to trails–the girls are at an amazing stage.
When we got to the market we [...]
Questions about books after dinner
“Dad, do you know the Odyssey?”
I do.
“How do you know it?”
I’ve read it in English many times, and fought with it in Greek, too.
“Tell me something about it.”
I leave you in Browning’s hands for a more complete account of a similar exchange. Allow me to quote “Development” at length:
MY FATHER was a scholar and knew [...]
On Distinction
The other night Luke and I were out for coffee, and our conversation, as it always does, turned to teaching, reading, and thinking. He was telling me a story about a friend of his, who is struggling through the life of the junior academic. “I don’t have time to read,” complained the friend, who spends [...]
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1to100.js — a first computer program
I wrote a lot of code this week, and there’s much I could share about what I did and how I did it. But only one of the programs has occupied my mind and stayed with me until now, and I want to say something about it.
My five year old has taken to math in [...]
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We make stuff
I had dinner last week with a few friends, and one of the things we discussed was cognitive surplus. I commented on the recent explosion of tweets and blog posts about the iPad, and how it will usher in the end of tinkering as we know and love it. It’s a sentiment I share, but [...]
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A bird in the hand and two in the field
I’ve written before about the prevalence of Snow Buntings in our area. It turns out I didn’t know the half of it. My wife recently connected with a neighbour who bands them. Each morning during the winter, whatever the weather, he goes out to a road a few over from ours, and parks his trunk [...]
Exposing the Professional