A Few Crooked Words
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14 Ways to Model Literacy
As we all know so well, children don’t just learn the lessons we plan to teach them. They learn by what we model for them. So if we want kids to be capable readers and writers, we have to do more … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, Frog Hollow School, Homeschooling, literacy, Parenting, Reading, Seattle, Writing
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Pretty Beautiful
“It’s so pretty! Wow, it’s so beautiful! Look at that, it’s so pretty! Isn’t it beautiful? Oh, PRETTY!!!” That was me, age ten, hiking with my family at Mt. Rainier. “It’s just so beautiful. Oh wow, it’s so pretty!” This … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, hiking, Homeschooling, Language, Parenting, Seattle, Teaching writing, vocabulary, Writing
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In Defense of Boredom
It’s important to have unstructured time. It’s important to have time to daydream, to wander, to tinker, to putz. It’s important to get bored. That’s right. Bored. As I understand it, boredom is a necessary blankness that makes space for … Continue reading
