Dewey's Treehouse

1.  Because I try to homeschool frugally, and also because we're on the last Squirreling: I've been going through all our potentia...

Part One is here.   The work for this school year takes a key thought from Whatever Happened to Justice , chapter 14, "The Human Ec...

"When I was young I told a tale of buried gold, and men from leagues around dug in the woods.  I dug myself." "But why?...

Last year we read chapters from H.O. Arnold-Forster's History of England, using a downloaded PDF and printouts.  Enough of that, I thoug...

Books new, books old: Photos by Mr. Fixit. Copyright 2014 Dewey's Treehouse.

The weather is hot and sweaty. Ponytails has one grade 11 exam left to go today, then she's free free free for the summer. The Appre...

What's happening around here? Dollygirl is writing exams and reading a load of library books.  One of the questions asked her to draw ...

These examination questions are adapted from the examination for Form III, Programme 94, a term which used much of the same history and lit...

In my library pile: Kepler's Conjecture: How some of the greatest minds in history helped solve one of the oldest math problems in the...

School plans for today: Finish Basic Bible Studies , "Never Lost Again" Read Dallas Lore Sharp, "Things to Do in the S...

Tonight's dinner menu: Rice-with-chicken-broth A can of Romano beans, plus corn, onion, chili powder, cumin, and chopped peppers, si...

Tonight's dinner menu: Pasta (penne) with a cobbled-together chicken-spinach skillet dish:  chopped leftover honey-mustard chicken wit...

What's left to do?  We are in Week 36, but we might take two weeks to wind things up before exams.  Depends on how fast we read. Basic...

First posted June 2012. "We are all on pilgrimage here: and though to beguile the road I have sung a song or two, and told perhaps to...

Cute salt shaker found here. School plans for the end of the week: Read two more pages from Ourselves Finish "The Deserted Vil...

Indoor plans: Continue "The Deserted Village" (poetry) History (a short section. the Hundred Years' War and the remaining ...

1. Fit in seven minutes a day..."for the time-crunched masses," promises the online article.  You exercise intensely for half a mi...

1.  Opening time: hymn 2.  Oliver Goldsmith, "The Deserted Village" (we started this, will finish it in one or two more readings...

Nature journalist Clare Walker Leslie promoting her book The Nature Connection: An Outdoor Workbook for Kids, Families, and Classrooms :

Plans for Tuesday: 1.  Art study: wrapping up Jan Vermeer, and giving us a chance to play around with the Art Stix we found on the weekend...