Posted in Anna, Book Recommendations, Goals, Middle school, reading on Jul 30th, 2012 2 Comments »
I’ve just started on a suggested reading list for Anna’s 7th grade year. Here’s what we have on it so far. Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgenson Understood Betsy, by Dorothy Canfield Fisher Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain Adam of the Road, By Elizabeth Janet Gray Across [...]
Posted in Teens and high school, Victoria on Jul 22nd, 2012 5 Comments »
Victoria and I have been working on the plan for her 9th grade year. We’ve always been very informal homeschoolers but she’s set her sights on Harvard at the moment (she found out that with our income level it would be free for her to attend). Who knows if she will feel the same in [...]
Posted in Funnies, Shakespeare on Jul 10th, 2012 No Comments »
Tee hee!
Posted in Book Recommendations, Goals, reading, Teens and high school, Victoria on Jul 10th, 2012 2 Comments »
We’ve finished up our 9th grade suggested reading list for Victoria for next year, with input from various friends online, web sites, my own suggestions and Victoria’s requests. She does not plan to read all of these, just a good portion. We’ll discuss them as she goes and she may write reviews for sites like [...]
Posted in science, video on Jul 7th, 2012 2 Comments »
Victoria has been asking us about the Higgs Boson and she unfortunately knew more about it than I did. I stumbled on this cute little video where a physicist explains it. It still is only slightly clearer than sewage sludge to me, but I thought it was well done nonetheless! What do you think of [...]
