These are some of the brief notes from a great discussion that we had in tonight’s “Pluto & Plato Radio Show” with our good friend Andrew Kern. The question was basically, “what are the basic general questions we should be asking to our students when teaching great literature and foster with great discussion and a love [...]
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Questions to Ask When Teaching Literature
Posted in Authors-PapaBear, Education on October 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Pecos Bill
Posted in Authors-SonBear, Books, Children, Education, Entertainment on October 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Pecos bill is an adventure book. It is about a boy who fell off the family cart into Pecos River and was raised by coyotes. Many years later he was playing hide-n-seek but he got lost and was found by a strange cowboy who offered to take him to Texas. Along the way he ropes a tornado, takes [...]
Why Homeschooling Is Fun
Posted in Education, Entertainment on October 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There are lots of reasons why I like homeschooling. I get to spend a lot of time with my family. We get our work done quickly. Like at so many schools, at home there are no mean people to pick on you. We also get to go on lots of field trips. For example, this [...]
Why Homeschooling Is Fun
Posted in Education, Entertainment on October 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There are several reasons why I like homeschooling. First, I like to be homeschooled because we take a lot of field trips. We went to LASM and saw the “Mysterys of the Nile”, we went to a homeschooling picnic, rode horses, and went bowling. In homeschooling, we do not have to wear uniforms. Also, we even [...]
Eastern Promises – Movie
Posted in Education, Entertainment, Entertainment-Movies on October 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Eastern Promises promises to remain in the line-up of good mob movies for years to come. Perhaps not in the “great” category, but good. Viggo’s performance is worth the ticket, popcorn and that of 2 friends. I will not go into the plot development here, but summarize that if you liked “The Departed”, you should [...]
A Foundation for a Great HomeSchool
Posted in Education on October 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Providing our children with a great homeschool education depends entirely on having a great home environment. I am aware this is an obvious statement to many, and perhaps should go without having to be said, but it bears repeating that to have a great school at home, you have to have a great home. You [...]
