BHS Ongoing 'blog

Among the first links on the list at right, newly-featured are an article from the front page of Saturday's NYTimes on "unschooling"-- and another, just following, of a series of letters written in response to the article.

Very interesting!

Let's Teach Them Well.

-BHS

posted by Unknown @ 1:04 PM 0 comments

Quote, on the subject of 'socialization' in relation to homeschooling. The quote is from the link "Montessori Homeschooling" at the right of all BHS pages.

The term "Montessori" can be replaced with the phrase "best-possible" or something similar:

"Q. What about socialization?
A. The word socialization, contrary to the opinion of some, does not mean spending the weekdays competing with 25 human beings one's own age. In a natural community children spend their daily lives with old people, babies, and everyone in between. They do not compete, but learn to search out the needs of others and to help them live and learn. This mixed age group and habit of teaching and helping others, and being helped and taught by people younger or older than oneself, is a part of Montessori classes at all ages and is easy to fit into the Montessori homeschooling plan."

Let's Teach Them Well.

-DaddyZ

posted by Unknown @ 8:52 AM 0 comments

The composted soil is working!

That is, in a couple of planters we've got going in a sunny windowsill, filled with the composted soil recently harvested from our roof bin-- there are already lots of green, vibrant sprouts asserting themselves!

We'll keep updating the progress!

Let's Teach Them Well,

-DaddyZ

posted by Unknown @ 8:22 AM 0 comments

Happy Halloween!

Don't have pix yet of the kids, but they looked great, had a great day, lots of fun trick-or-treating and costume-watching throughout the evening, in Clinton Hill, Brookyn.

Good, Fun Day/ Night!

Additionally, yesterday, harvested some of the composted soil we've been feeding for over a year now... Great, Deep-Brown soil! We planted a sprouting potato, an onion and some garlic cloves, flower, lettuce and other veggie seeds... we'll be watering it daily... see what grows, best!

We added some of the plentiful brown leaves around these days into the compost bin, and some new soil... ready for another year of production!

The kids are really hands-on in the process, we actively discuss all we're doing... they frequently seem to get it, completely. Very rewarding and lotsa fun!

-DaddyZ

posted by Unknown @ 8:15 AM 0 comments