Random

[ciroccoj]

• Surreal moment this morning when I realized that every one of the five home schooling moms chatting this morning identified as atheist/agnostic.
  
  
• Looking forward to seeing Chris' little sister and meeting her fiance before the wedding. And looking forward to seeing our kids' godparents and our godchildren's parents. Figure that one out of you can.
  
  
• Just bought tickets to the Harry Potter Exhibit at the Ontario Science Center!
  
  Nearly freaked when I saw the prices though, and congratulated myself over not having told the boys we were going to see it, because at $70 for an exhibit? Ah, no. Not unless you can actually play Quidditch.
  
  Turns out that includes admission to the museum. All righty then!
  
  
• Did you know that it's possible that all surviving Germanic languages, with the exception of German, Icelandic, Faroese and Elfdalian, have lost case declension, at least as far as nouns and adjectives are concerned? Because let me tell you, I did not.

Comments

[tudorlady.livejournal.com]

Question: Do you have a hard time finding homeschooling materials that aren't fundie-based?

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Nope, never. I don't use a lot of prewritten curriculum, though; we tend to use National Geographics, or books from the library, or my own old textbooks. And when we do want curriculum, Chapter's and Scholar's Choice - and even Staples - have great selections of activity books.

The only fundie-related problem I ever had was when I needed to order The Story of the World Volume III and it was only available through Amazon or a Christian bookstore. I went with the Christian bookstore, then found out a bit more about them and decided to just brave Amazon for Volume IV. I have heard that some secular home schoolers find the series too Christian, but have never really been able to understand why that is. It teaches about Christianity, sure, but that's because Christianity has been a major part of world history in the last 2000 years. And as far as I can tell, it treats Judaism and Islam and Buddhism and every other religion/belief system with the same respect, whenever they are taught as part of a section of history.

Why do you ask?

[daf9.livejournal.com]

Question about the Harry Potter Exhibit. When are you going? Just wondering 'cause I've been thinking about it but would like some feedback first if possible.