by Aza Donnelly MHA Board member I love Halloween. Pretty much everything about it. The aesthetic, the history, the time of year, the 1983 version of Disney’s Halloween Treat that I scrounge up on Youtube and force my kids to watch every year. But the costumes –I have a real love hate relationship with those […]
CONTINUE READINGby Maria Almli former MHA board member I am in the process of teaching my fourth child to read. We sit on the couch together, I read her a picture book, then an alphabet book, then she reads me a book. This is not a magic formula, but it does contain what I have found to […]
CONTINUE READINGby Kelly Sullivan Noah Pop quiz: Where do your children learn? A) Only at our kitchen table, and only what I teach them. B) Only alone in nature, and only what nature teaches them. C) All over the place, taught sometimes by me, sometimes through their own discovery, and sometimes guided by others. OK, that […]
CONTINUE READINGby Amy Pass, MHA Board Secretary Are you interested in teaching/learning a foreign language and wondering about all the apps that are out there? My family has tested a number of free resources over the past few years, and this is a quick overview of what we’ve found. (Please note, this is a personal perspective […]
CONTINUE READINGby Aza Donnelly, MHA Board Member It’s Fall. I love Fall; however, Fall makes me a bit unstable. I feel a little off my game. The excitement of the new school year is everywhere, regardless of the educational philosophy. As unschoolers we spend countless hours during this season with our more curriculum-minded brothers and sisters […]
CONTINUE READING