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| Posted on: July 7th, 2005, 9:23pm |
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| Posted on: July 7th, 2005, 9:42pm |
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Even though they are several decades old (I think at least one was published in the 60s) I really have enjoyed reading and rereading Johh Holt's How Children Learn and How Children Fail. These books are favorites of unschoolers, but have a lot of insight that is helpful for all homeschoolers, or parents for that matter.
Also, entertainingly radical John Taylor Gatto has lots to say in criticism of compulsory schooling. He's a former teacher of the year in NY and has used this influence to take on the system.
Gatto books: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obi.....ds=john+taylor+gatto
How Children Fail: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obi.....ding=UTF8%26v=glance
How Children Learn: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obi.....26s=books%26n=507846
I also think that I've seen at least a couple of these books at the library.
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| Posted on: July 7th, 2005, 10:30pm |
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I just read Get Ready to Read by Toni S. Gould. Excellent book! Borrows many ideas from Maria Montessori. Great readiness games to play with your three and four year old children. More games for reading, writitng and spelling. Her opinions on teaching the alphabet sounds before the letter names as well as teaching lower case letters before the upper case letters make so much sense to me.
http://www.allbookstores.com/search?type=any&q=Toni+S.+Gould&Go.x=0&Go.y=0 |
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| Posted on: July 8th, 2005, 1:24am |
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I have three that I go back to regularly. Two are by Mary Griffith...The Unschooling Handbook and The Homeschooling Handbook. The other is Home Learning Year by Year by Rebecca Rupp. The Rupp book is wonderful for having an idea about what your children "should"(used loosely) know each year. Not only does she say what the concepts are but she also gives great suggestions for resources to teach each concept.
One other new one that I am on my way to loving is called Great Books for Girls by Kathleen Odean (the chair for the 2002 Newbery Award Committee). The book gives a brief synopsis of each book and they are listed in alphabetical order. I have been awesomely impressed with the selections...great strong female characters. Just a quick "by the way", one of Emily's favorites was You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer by Shana Corey. It is a great, funny way to expose your girl to women's rights, or our struggle for rights, back in the mid-1850's. Highly, highly recommend it!
I also think she has a Great Books for Boys for those of you with boys only. |
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| Posted on: October 27th, 2005, 2:12am |
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We are just now reading Mr Popper's Penguins, by Richard and Florence Atwater. It's old (193 and probably really, really politically incorrect, but both of my kids beg to hear more chapters. (At their age, it's definitely a read-aloud.) I had never even heard of this book before I saw it in the scholastic catalog, but my husband remembers it fondly from his childhood. |
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