Our Homeschooling History
-
Fall 2024 test
Newsletter Contents A few notes for our first 2024-25 newsletter + poster to print! November 19 & 20 – IAEN’s Symposium in Quebec City. Free vocational training offer + news from Waseskun. Sign up for the newsletter, join our Facebook group. Stay connected. Indigenous Adult Education Network News & Welcome Message The Power of Unity…
-
Sec 1 update
Here we are again 🙂 We started to homeschool again after March break as we actively seek a new high school. Here’s the learning plan we submitted for the rest of the year. As with all our documents on this site – I hope you can find it helpful for ideas or resources as you…
-
Hello world!
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
-
Grade 6 update
Ha – we’ve been homeschooling since October. Early in the school year, we both got sick for the first time in the pandemic. And really sick – like 3 weeks + worth of sick. I kept Jack home when there were pandemic measures in place… why was I sending him back when there were none?…
-
Grade 5 is done ✅
Jack will be starting his final year of elementary school in a few weeks. The plan (sigh. for now. sigh) is for him to be back in a school setting. He is looking forward to seeing his friends on a daily basis! Last week, our DEM (Direction de l’enseignement à la maison) representative called me…
-
Grade 5 Learning Project – 2022 update
We’ve been homeschooling again since about mid-January. Jack was back in school as of September and I was actually his classroom teacher. But once again the Quebec government’s treatment of the school system during a pandemic had me scurrying us home. We were teaching online the week after Winter break. During that week, we received…
-
French Reading + Social Studies with “des traditions qui rassemblent”
I just found out about this contest today and it ends … tomorrow. So we will do a blitz of French reading activities over the next day and a half 🙂 We can’t fully participate as it’s one entry per day but I am hoping that the activities don’t disappear once the contest ends because…
-
DEM documents
Throughout the year I will need to complete a few administrative documents that outline my responsibilities to the Direction de l’enseignement à la maison (DEM) of the Ministère de l’éducation et enseignement supérieure (MEES). I’ll keep them here. If they can help anyone else, that is great. It is always comforting to see models. Learning…
-
Récit resources for Social Sciences
(**edit – page updated to fix a broken link Sept 1, 2022**) When learning from home, a lot of our learning and production happens digitally so the resources created by the Récit (basically a network of educators collaborating on digital resources for learning in Quebec) are super helpful. They are aligned with the Quebec Education…
Got any book recommendations?