Are you familiar with the term MOOC? It’s an acronym for Massive Open Online Course. It’s the new generation of continuing education classes, many offered from leading public and private universities. There are MOOCs for just about any topic you can think of in science, math, history, politics, fine arts, etc. There are a lot of […]
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Planning for new homeschool semester
Posted May 30th 2015 by sbuntynWhile thinking about planning our homeschooling agenda for the coming Fall semester. I realized that we are farther behind on the current semester that I thought. So we’ll be catching up during the summer. I don’t hold to a strict calendar or guidelines for our school. We’re pretty laid-back, eclectic in style. Not unschooling, not “school […]
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Planning for the new school year
Posted July 13th 2014 by sbuntynI’m trying to plan out the new school year, or at least the first semester. We started off last fall with the best of intentions, but fell by the wayside after Thanksgiving break. I think we’re going to “reboot” this year and finish up the subjects we lost focus on.
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Getting ready for school!
Posted August 14th 2012 by sbuntynWe are gearing up for our school year to begin! This year, we’re going “old school” – starting the Monday after Labor Day, like we did when I was a child some *ahem* 30-odd years ago. :) I’m working on the plan for our first 6 weeks. It is a slow-going process… so many decisions […]