A New Beginning

Ah, we have returned! Homeschooling is every bit as exciting as I remembered, and not anyway near as difficult. The girls have taken on the responsibility of their education with gusto, being very responsible about doing the work as laid out in the Oak Meadow curriculum and getting their work checked by someone else.

I thought it would take a while for them to be deschooled, but they already are turning off the electronics in favor of reading and creating.

Field trips, forever integral to our learning adventures, are already in full swing, too. We have been to the Weisman at the U of M, and are planning trips (soon) to the Duluth planetarium, the Science Museum, and to the Wild Rumpus. Oh! We're also hoping to go see "Footloose" at the Chanhassen Dinner Theater with friends...


On this day, Clio was looking up "map legend" in the dictionary and subsequently pulled out the topographical globe we got through National Geographic. She saw all the pictures of explorers and the routes of their major travels, and this led to a frenzy of looking up explorers on the internet and calculating their ages at death. We talked about dangers, Darwin's theory of evolution, and how Columbus and Magellan paved the way for the later explorers. We also found the National Geographic magazine that contains articles of Darwin and evolution.