The girls and I have not been back to the USA for almost a year. Dan has returned a few times in the last year for business but there was no need for the expense and hassle for the girls
Paperless Field Trip
I was a parent chaperone on a field trip with Haley’s class when she was in first or second grade. They were studying penguins. I think every kid in America studies penguins; there must be a very strong penguin mob lobby.
Pedasi Panama Public School Poem
Hello from Haley. This week for my writing class I had to write a descriptive poem. I chose to write it about the public school in Panama because what’s more sensory overloaded than that? Despite it sounding relatively negative, I
Chichen Itza (aka Those Mayans Were Freaky Smart)
We are trying to fit in just a few more field trips before Nanna returns to the Great White North (Alaska) so yesterday we took off for Chichen Itza. The girls and Aunt Kim and I had already experienced one field
Crocs! (no, not the shoe)
We are happy to have Nanna (Allison’s mom) visiting from Alaska for a few weeks. She’s thawing out a bit and enjoying the low hum that is the activity around our house. And she’s learning a lot from our nightly
Haley’s Version of The Summit
The week before last, we went to a gathering called the summit, and it was made up of about 30-40 families that came together to talk about homeschool / worldschooling. My mom wrote about it too, which you can read here.
The “S” word in homeschooling: Socialization
One of the most common questions that homeschoolers get is “But don’t your kids need the socialization that school provides?” I’m not going to go into that because that question has been addressed 8 ways from Friday. I’m here to
Gringas at the Planetarium
The last Friday of every month there is no school in Mexico. And I was pleasantly surprised to find a number of different workshops and classes geared towards these kids who are now free during the day. We learned about
There’s an app for everything…
…including making friends. When we decided not to enroll the kids in school here in Mexico we knew it would be a little harder for them to make friends and we’d have to put in a little more effort (read:
My first piano lesson
Hi everybody! It’s Haley, and this week I went to my first piano lesson! Before we moved to Panama, I took piano lessons. When we moved, I never got the chance to play the piano because of multiple reasons. 1.)