Salut Ciao and Hola!

By Rebecca in Learning in Freedom

My daughter is trying to learn three languages: French, Italian, and Spanish. She loves finding similarities among the three. Her French note cards are written in green pen; Spanish in red and Italian in black. Since we aren't hailing taxis ...

Pampered Silliness

By Rebecca in Learning in Freedom

I don’t know if I told you guys that we stayed in College Station last week. We spent the days swimming, eating, and sleeping. We caught an A&M baseball game in between our naps. I felt very pampered. I even ...

2011 Homeschool Graduation Ceremony – Mrs. Ellie

By Rebecca in Learning in Freedom

Yesterday was the 2011 Homeschool Graduation Ceremony. Ten graduates donned cap and gown and took part in this event. I think ten to twelve graduates is about the average each year. There have been a few years where the number ...

Good Idea: Gradeless schools! (link)

By Rebecca in Learning in Freedom

We gripe about what all is wrong with our schools and forget to point out when a community tries to do something right. Here is an article about a school that focuses on a student's ability instead of focusing on ...

Let go my EVO!

By Rebecca in Learning in Freedom

It was wild taking all the drama of the VicAd-Online comment section with me to my nine year old's soccer game this morning. I imagined all the fights happening in the bottom of my purse. Yes, I finally got one ...

Innovative or Orwellian? (thoughts)

By Rebecca in Learning in Freedom

I don't know if the phrase, interest driven learning or individualized learning, had been coined, or if it was a popular subject of discussion in the late eighties, but Isaac Asimov was describing the concept in this 1988 interview with ...