Interview with Kristin Madden, Part 5

Adrienne: Last questions for you: How did you come to write Pagan Homeschooling? I know you’ve written other books on Pagan topics, but have you done other professional writing on homeschooling?
Kristin: As I did my own research and developed a curriculum for my son, I needed to pull together so many different things. I realized [...]

Interview with Kristin Madden, Part 4

Adrienne: I have a close friend who became a Pagan many years ago now. Since I’ve become more aware of Paganism, I’m continually shocked at how much people misunderstand it and how much my friend has to worry about how people are going to react to her faith. Your Peace Kids group sounds like a [...]

Interview with Kristin Madden, Part 3

Adrienne: As you know, I contacted you after finding and reading your book Pagan Homeschooling. There is so much attention focused on conservative Protestant homeschoolers, but there are sizable groups of homeschoolers of any number of faiths – and there are probably more Pagan homeschoolers out there than many would guess. What kind of role [...]

Interview with Kristin Madden, Part 2

Adrienne: How would you describe your homeschooling philosophy/methods? Have they changed at all as you’ve gone along?
Kristin: My methods have not changed but my comfort level and trust in the process have increased quite a bit as I have seen the learning happen naturally and those Ah-Ha moments occur. 
I do a combination of school-at-home and [...]

Interview with Kristin Madden, Part 1

Paganism is a largely misunderstood religion in the United States. A lot of people are unaware of the Pagans in their own communities, partially because Pagans often choose to maintain a low profile to avoid confrontation. Thus, their numbers become underreported and they wind up underserved by institutions like public libraries. A lot of homeschoolers [...]

Leave It to the Unitarian Universalists….

Today I’ve been exploring Unitarian Universalist Homeschooling and found HUUmans on the Web, a site for UU homeschoolers and “kindred spirits.” Nestled in its wealth of useful information, they have a handy (and unique) listing of fully inclusive homeschooling groups (sometimes a challenge to find!). The site isn’t 100% up to date, but, still, some [...]

The Ultimate Homeschool Physical Education Game Book by Guy Bailey

Bailey, Guy. The Ultimate Homeschool Physical Education Game Book. Camas, WA: Educators Press, 2003.
To a non-athlete such as myself, teaching physical education in a homeschool setting has always seemed like a no-brainer: it’s easy enough to tell the kids to go outside and play or enroll them in something along the lines of a soccer [...]

The Ultimate Book of Homeschooling Ideas by Linda Dobson

Dobson, Linda. The Ultimate Book of Homeschooling Ideas: 500+ Fun and Creative Learning Activities for Kids Ages 3-12. Roseville, CA: Prima Publishing, 2002.
In The Ultimate Book of Homeschooling Ideas: 500+ Fun and Creative Learning Activities for Kids Ages 3-12, Linda Dobson offers readers a compendium of ideas and activities she compiled from homeschoolers worldwide. Chapters [...]

Reading John Holt

 “For it seems to me a fact that, in our struggle to make sense out of life, the things we most need to learn are the things we most want to learn. To put this another way, curiosity is hardly ever idle.”
-John Holt in How Children Learn
I’m doing a lot of reading for my chapter [...]

Recommended Reading from Author Tamora Pierce

For some reason, Tamora Pierce has a list of recommended reading for homeschoolers on her web site. It’s geared toward teens planning on college.
Cool!
The best part? You have to scroll to the bottom for the list of authors/books Ms. Pierce included out of a sense of obligation but doesn’t actually like. Surely you’ll find something [...]