Sometime in March, we read about different kinds of volcanoes . Joy “built” her own virtual volcano on the Discovery Channel ( see http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/pompeii/interactive/interactive.html) We also read about Pompeii and viewed photos on the web of the actual site. I visited the ruins back in the nineties and took several shots of the place; so [...]
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Homeschooling and Us (Part 1)
We’ve been formally homeschooling for almost half a year now. That’s not a long time in comparison. I must qualify that statement though. for we’ve not stopped homeschooling our children from the time they were born. From the time when they were weeks out of the womb, we sang, talked and read to them. We [...]
Learning to write
Dd4 managed to write her name this week, after months of practice doing capital letters. After she’d finished the 6 letters of her name, she looked up and beamed. Our living room had never been brighter. This is the choice I make. To spread sun and fields over tiled roofs, crumple glass panes into dandelions, [...]
Joy’s Composition
Joy (dd8) took part in the Creative Writing Course that I taught during the school hols. One of the writing assignments included responding to a prompt : “It was the brightest day in August. The sun was a golden orb that was about to set and the late evening breezes swept me along the forest [...]
Creative writing and revival
I spent most of last week scribbling down ideas and putting together lesson plans. I also overdosed on preserved guava and Nescafe (decaff), not to mention chocolate cream cakes and Bulla’s Neapolitan ice-cream. These were part of the preparation for what would happen the week after. I was a knight training for battle, or a [...]
Journalling and writing
Last year, dd8 was ardent in scribbling in her journal. I was agog and delighted that she had caught the writing bug. I was also relieved that I wouldn’t have to arduously concoct ways and means to motivate her to write. She was all set, thought I, and I could lean back and relax. Sigh. [...]
