Dewey's Treehouse

Tonight we made the Hillbilly Housewife's recipe for Taco Style Lentils and Rice, which is a nice soft hot spicy thing you can roll up i...

The Deputy Headmistress at The Common Room recently put up a potato post here and mentioned how, in a time when their family was under seve...

The other thing this week to make a homeschooling mom happy: The Apprentice (who used to swear that she hated math and everything about mat...

Our friend Coffeemamma from Our Blue Castle posted awhile ago here about ways to know that a four-year-old comes from a homeschooling fami...

"Learn to handle basic foods and you can cook creatively with the plainest ingredients. A good cook knows you do not tamper with the s...

"I have stood in the mist of Iguacu Falls in Brazil as gorgeous tropical butterflies, winged bearers of abstract art, landed on my arms...

Scene: too early in the morning. Mama Squirrel brings in the morning paper (pretty thin, it's Tuesday) and flips through it before put...

Thanksgiving! We had planned to go to the Oktoberfest parade in the morning, but drizzly weather and sniffles decided against it. So we ma...

After those posts about poverty (and not feeling particularly hard done by), Mama Squirrel had the interesting experience last weekend of do...

Yesterday the Squirrelings took a walk with Mama Squirrel (in this insanely warm October weather) and we decided to pick up some bananas at ...

Homeschoolers are often puzzled by articles insisting that only professional teachers know how to teach. Mama Squirrel read one article onl...

Mr. Fixit and Mama Squirrel have been watching the movie Hamlet over the last few nights. We stopped off at the vegetable stand again to pic...

For anyone out there who wonders what our third-grader's homeschool really looks like (well, as we plan it anyway), here's what'...

The year I finished high school, I spent part of the summer working at a camp, and my mother sent me a boxful of Kitchen Sink Cookies from t...

Last weekend we went out to one of our favourite fruit-and-vegetable places that sells local produce (mostly grown right there). They still...

Last Friday we returned from a shopping trip and realized, on the way home, that part of the city had been hit by a power blackout (a hydro ...

Today I invented a new reading game for Crayons. On the computer, I made a page with twelve boxes (using a table) and in each box I typed a...

I made a reading-practice card game this week for Crayons, from an idea I found in The Reading Teacher's Book of Lists. I cut about 15 ...

First question: Why do some people think that homeschooling is such an elitist thing, only for people with lots of money? Second question:...

A homeschooling blogger pointed me to this article by Mark Oppenheimer on homeschoolers and their books, from the Wall Street Journal Edito...