by Britt Kelly | Aug 14, 2014 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home
It’s easier to talk about it now, because I’m not there. I can look back with objectivity and the comfort of distance. With my depression being hormone-based, yes, part of the problem is that I do keep having children. I’m an adult. I sometimes choose the hard thing I...
by Britt Kelly | Jul 31, 2014 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home
My first year homeschooling my daughter, we did school at home. We didn’t have bells and timers on everything, but I did have a set curriculum of what someone else thought every child that age should know. By the end of the year I had changed my philosophy of how...
by Britt Kelly | Jul 24, 2014 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home
Texas has five required subjects for homeschoolers to teach: reading, spelling, grammar, mathematics and good citizenship. You may have to reread that a few times. Perhaps we should assume that a good citizen has a clue about science, music, art, history, and health....
by Britt Kelly | Jul 17, 2014 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home
A few decades ago, when I was in high school, I quit Calculus. I quit because my teacher couldn’t answer my questions: “Why am I learning this? How is Calculus used in the real world? When would I ever need to know the area of something that is so complex, we can’t...
by Britt Kelly | Jul 10, 2014 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home
My first child was..creatively, excessively mischievous. I call this pucktastic from Puck in Midsummer Night’s Dream. I should have known this from the beginning. She spent a week in the NICU. At first she was in an incubator. She had tubes and wires and suchlike. Our...
