[Updated] Off-season travel - can’t be beat!

We plan our vacations around when people are in school, so we have all these advantages working for us.

Science is REALLY great fun, amazing, cool… and right in our backyard

It was a joy to see people at work who really love what they do and who feel a sense of enthusiasm for their tasks. I think that this is definitely an attitude that is “caught” rather than “taught.”

Summertime and the living is… what?

With home schooling really being a lifestyle rather than something you do for certain parts of the day, some things get left unattended to. As a result, I am looking forward to rolling up my sleeves and getting things clean, fresh and uncluttered! Organization is key here!

Homeschooling - It’s free and it’s fun

Their website (www.thelastgreenvalley.org) lists loads of events that are free and open to the public, including an event on May 30 where I will have the opportunity to perform a song I wrote for the “Source to Sea” Expedition!

Home-Schooling: Current trends and information you can use!

Home-educators and their families are not dependent on public, tax-funded resources. In the state of Oregon alone, they saved taxpayers at least $61 million dollars per year.

What does it take to homeschool? The logistics, demystified!

Some homeschoolers opt to pay for testing and can use that as a tool for measuring the level their kids have reached.

Homeschooling: learning from the pro’s at the Culinary Olympics

In the future, we will use the published recipes that we got from the competition for our own cooking class at home.
For our Home Economics/ Cooking class, I decided to take the kids to the annual Culinary Olympics at the University of Connecticut [held on Jan. 15].
We have gone to this event a [...]

Elections provide a wealth of lessons for home-schoolers

Along with elections come phone calls. My kids got to see me with the headset on, list in front of my face, and pencil and ruler in hand as I proceeded down the list of names to call to encourage people to vote for me.
“What?” you say, “a home-schooler can learn about elections?” Well, [...]

Homeschooling: Europe was our ‘classroom’

The scenery in Italy had its own magnificence and grandeur that added a whole new dimension to our studies of art, architecture and history. This tour included Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper” and the cathedral known as the “Duomo.”

As Jonathan so aptly put it in his last contribution to this column, “We are [...]

Homeschooling: Glad to be home!

We went to the Mercedes Benz factory for a tour. That was the coolest thing we did in Germany. We saw how the cars are made with huge robotic things that are precise to, like 1/100 of an inch. It was some ridiculously tiny number. But it was so cool.
[Editor's note: This week, Ruth [...]