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The Learning Basket

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Going Back To The Past – Life At Home Then and Now

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We continued our exploration of life in the Appalachians through the book When I Was Young In The Mountains by Cynthia Rylant. This time, we latched on to the idea of home life "then," as depicted in the illustrations, and "now." I wanted to go to a museum to look at "old things." But hating Manila traffic and avoiding it as much as possible, I decided to stay home. I … [Read more...]

I Want To Share But I Don’t Want To Overshare: Respecting Children’s Privacy in the Age of Social Media

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  This blog post was inspired by an online article titled Perils of Facebook Parenting: Exploring Danger of Oversharing Children Online. Please read it if you blog or are sharing about your children online. I saw a little girl in a preschool I had visited one time. I have never met her but I knew who she was. I have never met her but I knew when her birthday was. I … [Read more...]

The Rag Coat: Quilt, Dulcimer, Mining

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Our “school week” starts on a Monday. Saturdays and Sundays are for crafting my lesson plans based on the “Five in a Row” manuals and/or other resources, and Mondays are for starting a new book.  It takes me two to three hours to plan the week and to gather our materials, which all go to our Learning Basket. Selecting Similarly-Themed BooksCramming Not preparing for weeks in … [Read more...]