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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

Distributed learning: the exit

Fiona took some online Grade 10 courses this semester: PE and Personal & Career Planning. She took them partly because she wanted these required credits out of the way so that she can focus next year on the academic courses that

Miranda July 4, 2016July 4, 2016 Homeschooling, Main No 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

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

Changing DL programs

Again. For several years our family had been with the SelfDesign distributed learning (DL) program, an unschooling-friendly sort of virtual umbrella school to which we reported in various creative ways on a weekly basis in exchange for support primarily in

Miranda January 28, 2016February 3, 2016 Homeschooling, Main 1 Comment

Unschooled adolescents

Fiona’s primary enrolment this year is with SelfDesign, an independent umbrella program that supports home-based learners from Kindergarten through Grade 9 and their families, including loads of unschoolers. The support is primarily moral support, though there’s a little money available

Miranda November 5, 2015February 3, 2016 Homeschooling, Main, Parenting, Thinking about learning 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

A time and place

Fiona started coding club this week. It was held at the Nelson Tech Club’s hackerspace. Three kids, all about 12, two of them on the autism spectrum and with their workers along for support, the others being boys. There may be a few

Miranda March 7, 2015February 3, 2016 Homeschooling, Main, Science, Thinking about learning No Comments

Looking ahead

Last year Fiona had two siblings at home full-time, and lived in a home with all her stuff, reams of amenities and a bedroom of her own. This year she has no siblings (or siblings’ friends) around home, and half her life

Miranda January 25, 2015July 18, 2016 Homeschooling, Main 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

How to know if your unschooler is learning

Q. How do you know if an unschooled child is learning? A. He’s alive. The point being that children are hard-wired to learn. You can’t stop them. Give them a reasonably rich environment, loving support and relative freedom and you really

Miranda December 11, 2014February 3, 2016 Homeschooling, Main, Thinking about learning No Comments

The landscape of Distributed Learning

We’ve been part of three different Distributed Learning programs with the various kids over the years. In BC kids who are home-based learners have two broad choices. They can be registered as homeschoolers according to the Ministry of Education’s legal definition of

Miranda November 26, 2014February 3, 2016 Homeschooling, Main No Comments

Trig love

Four times I fretted over what to do with the kids when they finished the Singapore Primary Math series at relatively young ages. Were they ready to move into Singapore’s high school series, or a traditional US-based high school math

Miranda June 11, 2014February 3, 2016 Homeschooling, Main, Mathematics No Comments

Homeschooling just one, v2.0

Homeschooling just one, v2.0

What a difference this year! A new violin teacher has arrived in the area and I have relinquished all my private lesson teaching to her. This means that Fiona is not dragged to a furniture- and electronics-barren teaching studio for

Miranda September 13, 2013February 3, 2016 Homeschooling, Main, Mathematics, School No Comments
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