We spent about 2.5 weeks on this one, practicing here and there in the car: And actually we never had them recite it *together* until that official turkey day presentation. All in all I think they did OK, a B+! Most people know a shorter version....and they may even be inclined to *interrupt*, ahem! But [...]
Last week there was a *History Fair* in Manhattan for kids educated outside the system. Since it was the first one we went to, I had no idea how it was going to work. My son had done a project on John Smith (the explorer) over a month ago and we figured it was logical [...]
....then they should be! His conclusion certainly merits repeating: Education is a self-organizing system where learning is an emergent phenomenon.
We just made another math video on quadratic equations: While we were shooting this one my son said, to me... "Dad, did you know that if you can teach something then you really, really know it well." Of course I knew I that. But I was curious...where did he hear it? "Oh I heard that [...]
This is a list of what my 6 year old son has read and recorded in his *books* Google Doc for this year's first quarter. I'm sure he's missed a bunch but that's understandable given the overall book chaos in our house. The Secrets of Droon #35: Lost Empire of Koomba - 128 pg Vespers Rising [...]
Most people I talk to can't even imagine what it would be like to *educate their own children*. Click here to see what one local parent, a friend of ours, has been up to with her *2nd-grader* this past quarter. Now picked up your dropped-jaw!
I've been meaning to make a video of him doing math for a while....and this is what we came up with. Note also that this was the very first time I asked him to stand up and use a board like this. His writing generally stinks but I think his presentation skills are pretty [...]
I would say that I personally learned more from 6 years of blogging than I did in 15/16 years of formal education - and I went to a top-notch high school and an Ivy League university! So it was an automatic that I would get my kids started on their own blogs early on: Here [...]
Kids all learn (are taught) to read at different rates and by different means. With all the phonics books, websites, and theories out there... I still doubt there's a better approach than sitting down with them and playing with something like Bananagrams. "Furball"? That's an old nickname of mine wielded by my golf jabronis. And [...]
A few days before her 4th birthday she finished Kumon's Addition Workbook - recommended for ages 5,6,7: Here she is at age 4.5, starting multiplication: Now mastering the basics only 3 months later, at age 4.75: That program is Math Rider - a terrific resource for learning the math facts. It's really a no-brainer investment [...]
