http://homeschool.gleeson.us The homeschool of the Gleeson family, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Mon, 13 Nov 2006 07:49:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Special Needs Child Art of Chess Combination Art of Sacrifice in Chess Turning Advantage into Victory in Chess Storming the Barricades The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played http://homeschool.gleeson.us/2006/05/15/book-order Time for an update on T.J.’s studies. We had some breaks for the Christmas holidays, and also took about two weeks off in early March due to the birth of T.J.’s newest cousin. Otther than that things have largely been uneventful. Mathematics: Deductive logic and lengthy forays into applied statistical analysis. English: ... http://homeschool.gleeson.us/2006/05/03/tjs-year I was reading at Roundrock Journal and musing about meteor impacts, when I remembered a cool word: astrobleme - meaning star wound - and the official word for the crater left by a meteor impact. http://homeschool.gleeson.us/2006/04/22/astrobleme Today was the Oklahoma Natural Parenting Homeschoolers park day. It was a little on the hot side but we had a great time. Pictures behind the cut! I love pictures of little kids walking. Sean and Gil Abby shows us her rainbows and hearts. Bede really likes trees, and this park has many. He was ... http://homeschool.gleeson.us/2006/04/14/park-fun On Friday, we took a field trip to the University of Oklahoma Medieval Fair, the annual event which for three days every year magically transforms Reaves Park in the college town of Norman, Oklahoma, into an authentic park with a Medieval Fair. Here are five-sevenths of our entourage, standing among the ... http://homeschool.gleeson.us/2006/04/04/yore-time-is-up Best Homeschooling has a great collection of essays on, you guessed it, homeschooling. I particularly enjoyed Just Do the Math, by David Albert, as it is a very good description of how I learned mathematics one summer. I went from barely managing basic computation to college algebra in about a month ... http://homeschool.gleeson.us/2006/03/30/best-homeschooling Abaigeal can read too! She was sitting on the sofa the other day and I heard her talking to herself but since I was a room away, couldn’t quite make out the words. I walked in (she couldn’t see me at this point) and she was sitting there, happy as ... http://homeschool.gleeson.us/2006/02/02/see-abby-read THE FIELD TRIP On Wednesday, Jan. 25, Phoebe and I took Faith, Abby, Bede, and Gilbert on a field trip to the Bedré chocolate factory. The excursion had been planned by Phoebe’s Yahoo group, Oklahoma Natural Parenting Homeschoolers. Quite a few families participated, and all the children seemed to have a ... http://homeschool.gleeson.us/2006/01/29/bedre-tour “Mama. It’s like this. ‘Today on Jakers: Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.’” Snort. Indeed. http://homeschool.gleeson.us/2006/01/06/faith-sums-it-all-up-for-us The very first Carnival of Homeschooling is up at the Why Homeschool blog. I haven’t even read any of it; I’m so excited about it that I’m blogging about it first, then reading it. http://homeschool.gleeson.us/2006/01/03/theres-a-carnival-of-homeschooling