A day by day description of our secular, eclectic homeschooling experience with lots of links to the resources we use.
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Unschooling Latin?
Published on 2010-08-08 10:31:00
My daughter has been interested in learning Ancient Greek and Latin since forever. We've approached Greek in fits and starts because I haven't really found anything that seemed to work well. She worked through the Greek Hupogrammon years ago but that's just learning the alphabet. Beyond that there's not a whole lot of interesting Greek homeschooling stuff. Or rather, there's some but her real interest is Attic, not Koine or New Testament and in the homeschooling world that limits the already nar
Should've Installed Ubuntu
Published on 2010-07-23 21:26:00
I wiped my hard drive yesterday and did a fresh install of Windows XP. Now my damn computer is running slower then before. I think that's because I tweaked things with the last install to make it run faster but now I can't remember what I did! It's because of Google. With Google I never have to remember anything. I find what I need, use the information and then dump it. Darn it. There was something to do with the cache I think...Oh, the hours ahead of me.
The Book Pile
Published on 2010-07-23 20:16:00
I must be freakin' crazy. And that's not all of it either. Getting Started with Latin hasn't arrived yet and neither has Oxford's The Medieval and Early Modern World (no, I didn't pay that price! Got it on sale for $95). I haven't got a clue how it will all work. I have a vague idea that math and much of the English stuff will get done first each day while the rest will be consigned to a loop schedule. That is, there will be a list with all the rest on the stuff on it and a certain amount of ti
