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Will school ever be the whole story?

Although she’s only equivalent to Grade 9 by age and this semester is taking three academic Grade 12 courses, school has ended up being fairly unchallenging for Fiona. She picked up a DL Spanish course in October to fill her

Miranda December 5, 2017December 5, 2017 Being active, Moving on, Music education, School, Travel 3 Comments

Second year of school

Fiona has begun Grade 11 at the big mainstream school in Nelson. Compared to the scheduling chaos of last year, her first year in school, it has been a very smooth start. She likes being back at the routine. She

Miranda September 6, 2017September 7, 2017 Main, School No Comments

Big summers

The big kids had big summers this year. We knew Erin’s would be big. She had been offered a Tanglewood fellowship. This meant spending the summer in the Berkshires in western Massachusetts playing in an amazing orchestra and performing at the

Miranda September 6, 2017 Moving on, School, Travel No Comments

First year of school

Fiona finished her first year of school, Grade 10, just over a week ago. Over the previous three years she had taken two core courses (math and science) and two short electives (Spanish and dance) at our local village school, but this

Miranda July 8, 2017July 9, 2017 Homeschooling, Main, School 1 Comment

End of Semester 1

Fiona turned 14 last week and has just completed her first semester as a mainstream school student at a bricks-and-mortar high school in Nelson. How are things going in the world of school? Pretty well. She had three Grade 11

Miranda February 2, 2017February 2, 2017 School 3 Comments

First school term

Fiona has reached the end of the first term of the first semester of her first year fully enrolled in school. She has a part-time course load, with just three out of four time-slots filled. She is taking Art 11,

Miranda November 18, 2016November 19, 2016 Main, School, Science No Comments

Physics is hard

Fiona has now been in high school for two weeks. It feels like a month! In both a bad way and a good way. Her life has been so crazy full that it feels like a month must have passed for all

Miranda September 21, 2016 Main, School, Science No Comments

A new year: school

It’s been not entirely smooth, Fiona’s entry into mainstream bricks-and-mortar schooling. For those who have been keeping track, Fiona got her first tastes of regular schooling at our tiny local K-12 school. By tiny, I mean tiny. The high school

Miranda September 10, 2016September 10, 2016 Main, School 2 Comments

Conventional wisdom and unschooled teens

All four of my children grew up unschooling through their primary-school-aged years. Their learning was wide open, uncoerced, simultaneously lagging in some areas and massively precocious in others. It was typically highly efficient, mastery-oriented and interest-led. And then they all chose to attend school starting sometime

Miranda July 2, 2016February 8, 2019 Family Matters, Homeschooling, Main, School No Comments

Distributed Learning: The Final Episode

We are now nearing the end of what will be our last year of home-based learning. And the last part of the ride has been a bit bumpy. We started the year with Fiona (12 at the time, and officially “in Grade 9”)

Miranda May 22, 2016May 22, 2016 Homeschooling, Main, School No Comments

Accomplishments

Over the past few years the focus of my blog (well, it’s arguable whether it has any focus at all) has moved away from the specifics of what my children are up to. That’s been the natural result of them

Miranda April 15, 2016July 2, 2016 Main, Mathematics, Moving on, Music education, School, Travel 3 Comments

Getting ready for school

We’ve started the paperwork, the “Request for Transfer” into the bricks-and-mortar high school that Fiona wants to attend next year. Actually, she has started the paperwork; for whatever reason this kid loves filling out forms and isn’t afraid of a

Miranda February 23, 2016February 28, 2016 Homeschooling, Main, Moving on, School No Comments

The school year, times 4

For the first time all four of my kids are officially enrolled in school. Fiona (12) is enrolled one-quarter time, taking two courses at the local school. She’s doing math and science for two hours on each of Monday and

Miranda September 27, 2015February 3, 2016 Homeschooling, Main, Moving on, School No Comments

At the crashpad

Sharing our lives out between two residences feels good in a number of ways. The travel doesn’t feel onerous: Fiona and I are doing two trips a week, just like we did all last year. For Sophie I think it’s

Miranda December 16, 2014February 3, 2016 Family Matters, Homeschooling, Main, School No Comments

Graduating

Noah is graduating from our tiny k-12 public school. He is the only student in his class who is planning post-secondary studies next year: a couple of others may attend college in the future, but they’re taking gap years to

Miranda June 11, 2014February 3, 2016 Community, Main, Moving on, School No Comments
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