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Welcome to our virtual home school! Heavy on nature and literature and light on all the boring stuff...

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Missing teen

$50,000 reward for helping find of missing Ont. teen (Oct 24, 2008)
Search for missing teen will continue (Oct. 25, 2008)
Teens' video game habits part of larger issue: experts (Oct 25, 2008)
‘Mantracker’ joins hunt for missing Ontario teen (Oct. 25, 2008)
Video gamers high earners, athletic and dating: studies (Oct. 28, 2008)
Brandon Crisp apparently found dead, police say (Nov 5, 2008)
Hunters make tragic discovery in Brandon Crisp disappearance (Nov 5, 2008)
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This is our homeschooling world

Zoo is a ten-year-old boy in Toronto, who is fully bilingual (French), has a gifted identification, and fatigues more quickly than his peers (hence homeschooling as the only happy option at this time). My posts are not lesson plans specifically, but do contain ideas on how to tackle a unit and links to excellent resources. We place high value on incidental and inquiry-based learning and try hard to harness their power through our blog. Emphasis on skill development (not knowledge acquisition) including research, software tools, and cooking 101. Children's literature is a cornerstone: we listen to talking books, read outloud together, and read silently. Emphasis on grammatical analysis (through diagramming) and vocabulary development (through Greek and Latin morphemes). We follow Ontario Curriculum guidelines with our own materials and enrichment. We tend to spend time at either the most basic foundational or at enriched levels of study and less on the middle ground and on repetition. Emphasis on how to organize knowledge through classification systems and graphic organizers and on how to use these in support of knowledge development. Nature studies keep us cheerful and surprised.

My Shelfari Bookshelf

Shelfari: Book reviews on your book blog

Everyday links

  • Books at library
  • Definitions at Dictionary
  • Encyclopedia at Wikapedia
  • Mail and calendar at Yahoo
  • Photos at Flickr
  • Science Channel
  • Weather at the Weather Network

Math links

  • Jump Math
  • Math League
  • Cool math games
  • A Plus Math (drills)
  • Math playground (drills)
  • Minute Math Drills
  • Mrs. Thonus's Third Grade Stars!

Language Arts Links

  • Better Sentence Structure Through Diagramming
  • Creative writing ideas
  • Grammar! Grammar! Extra! Extra!
  • Inferencing 3-4
  • Language arts: Explode the Code, book 7 & 8
  • Ridgewood Analogies 1
  • Sentence Diagram Examples
  • Sequencing 4

History links

  • BBC History
  • Historica
  • History Channel
  • Nicola's Canadian History Reading List
  • Usborne Encyclopedia of World History

Science links

  • DK Images encyclopedia
  • Dragonfly (science experiments)
  • How Stuff Works
  • National Geographic
  • Science Channel
  • Science News for Kids

en Francais

  • Conjugaisons
  • J'enrichis mon vocabulaire
  • La Grammaire, c'est mon affaire
  • Lecture: Alerte a l'ours
  • Lecture: Pien
  • Vocabulaire 5 ieme annee

What Zoo is working on

  • Diagramming
  • Analogies
  • Prefixes including Greek & Latin ones
  • Jump Math

Skills Zoo is working on

  • helping o ut
  • Parsing (breaking words in morphemes)
  • Constructing & using a blog

What Zoo's reading

  • The selected works of T.S. Spivet
  • Bud, Not Buddy

What we're listening to

  • The Subtile Knife

What we're watching

  • nothing

What Zoo is creating

  • Black Hawk helicopter

Places to learn

  • Don Mills Public Library
  • Victoria Village Public Library
  • Ontario Science Centre
  • Royal Ontario Museum
  • Canadian Air and Space Museum
  • Art Gallery of Ontario
  • Toronto Parks (Edwards Gardens, Charles Sauriol)
  • Conservation Parks (Pioneer, Kortright, Bruce's)
  • Toronto Zoo

Questions Zoo is asking

  • Why did God create disease?

Our Blog List

  • Nature
    Extreme Weather Condidtions in Durham Region
    15 years ago

Zoo is thinking about...

  • Lego again
  • Building cages for amphibians & reptiles

Annod is thinking about...

  • Incidental learning

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