Post-Apocalyptic Homeschool

This blog is called Post-Apocalyptic Homeschool because I obsessively collect and stockpile used children's books just in case I need to personally educate a small village after some sort of catastrophic scenario where all the other books and technology and book-obtaining means of all kinds have been destroyed, such that the only reading materials left for miles around are the piles of books in my garage. Sensible, yes?

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Idea to Steal: Vocabulary

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While flipping through storybooks today at the library , I found someone had left behind a sticky note on the endpaper of one. The sticky no...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Feast or Famine: How Children's Minds Thrive or Starve on Words

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Risley, Todd & Betty Hart, Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children , Brookes Publishing: 1995. ...

Day 2 of Judaism Week

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I remembered that life isn't all about books about the same time I saw the Avinu Malkeinu mentioned in my Rosh Hashanah reading. I looke...

Parks!

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  Court Park in Playa Vista (photo courtesy of the fabulous  GoPlayinLA.com ) It has come to my attention that parks are awesome. Therefo...
Monday, September 26, 2011

General Update

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JUDAISM WEEK: Tree planted! Jackson helped out by inspecting a worm we found and pouring water on it using the cup from his water table. Pho...
Sunday, September 25, 2011

High Holy Days - Judaism/Jewishness Theme Week

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In celebration of the High Holidays and Jackson's Jewish heritage, I'm planning a Judaism/Jewishness theme week. Overall, I plan to...
Friday, September 23, 2011

First Fractions? Quarters

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Quarters In a serendipitous coincidence, I had the opportunity to introduce Jackson to the word and concept of  quarters both yesterday ...
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