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An Outdoor Game
When my oldest, who’s now 17, was about 6 we played a game called Red Indian. Not a politically correct name nowadays but it was called that none-the-less. CM wrote about it in Home Education on page 88. We play a variation that we made up ourselves. Here’s how we do it. As I’m meandering down our dirt road, the children run up ahead and hide in the bushes. They are to stay as quiet as they possibly can in hopes that I will not spot them. If I pass by where they are hiding without spotting them, they pop up and let me know it and then take off running to…
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Out-of-Doors Studies For Older Children
It is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things. CM Vol.1 I’m not being too consistent in getting these posts out about CM but I’m trying. Last time I wrote about Out-of-Doors Studies for Children Under Six; today I would like to address the same but with more of a focus on older children. The following list of ideas was complied from CM’s books Home Education and A Philosophy of Education. Many of these ideas were given for children under the age of nine but my guess is that many older children have not…
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Our Teen Pact Experience & a Math Competition
We made it to TeenPact in spite of our creek! We thought the water had gone down enough but we didn’t know it had actually washed out part of it; so, when we started to cross over Monday morning, we got stuck, as this picture atests. It took us about an hour to get out – we had to use our neighbor’s backhoe, but finally I was on the road with my two boys, Seth (17yos) and Zachary (15 yos). TeenPact was a great experience for the boys. They both were not too excited about going but once there, they thoroughly enjoyed themselves. There were about 80 kids involved and they…
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Rain, a Flash Flood and a Tree
Yesterday, we had quite the adventure. While gone to church and a nice 2-hour lunch afterwards, the creek that we have to cross to get home, started rising from all the rain we were getting. My dh did not feel comfortable trying to cross without someone being on call in case we had trouble, so we prevailed upon a neighbor (who lives 2 miles from us, but he’s our closest neighbor) to stand by with chains and ropes if we should get stuck, or worse, started getting washed downstream. My two oldest boys were in Tucson for the weekend, so it was just my husband, myself, 4 of our children…
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Is This Really Arizona?
I’m off today (Friday) to hear Mary Schofield speak. I love anything to do with homeschooling, so I’m quite happy about this. Mary wrote the book The High School Handout. I thought, though, that I would share a few pictures showing some of the diversity our state has to offer. I can hardly believe this is Arizona and it’s in my backyard. I didn’t go on this 2 1/2 mile hike but the rest of the family, along with some friends, went and took these pictures. Wesley actually got himself stuck in this piece of ice. This was the 50′ waterfalls they hiked to.
