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September 10, 2005 - A Bit About Me

I replied to an e-mail about my homeschool.  Here's what I wrote.  It should give you a glimpse into our homeschool.

I have been using ideas from Thomas Jefferson Education  for the last year and really like the approach.  I still have some classical and Charlotte Mason ideas in our homeschool.  One thing I am working on is getting the kids to "own" their education by showing leadership.  I am seeing that they must have a strong core character foundation and a love of learning to begin.  This is included in the Core & Love of Learning lecture notes and Core & Love of Learning CD.  From here, they can enter more self-directed studies in the scholar phase.  Last spring we only required the girls to continue their humanities course and their online writing course.  After that, they decided what to study.  My middle daughter continued in math and my oldest did not.  My middle one dropped biology, but is picking it up this year. My oldest has chosen to take a college class at New Saint Andrews this year called lordship.  They will both take Great Books 3 class and George Grant's humanities course.  I planned to let my son make some decisions for this year, but have not gotten that far.

Kerry

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