Donna Young

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When my children were younger, I had them do something that I called timed writing. I’m not sure what I can say about it to recommend it except to say generically — It helped them. They started out at the first of the school year, sort of freezing or taking too long at the process […]

Some of us have been homeschooling for several weeks now. How is it going? I hope at least it’s been good. Homeschooling is rarely perfect; it’s more like a roller coaster.

I first wrote this in 2003 at my forum, but now that it is gone, I need to republish for my purposes. I am writing a review of Jensen’s Format Writing and in my syllabus, I had a link to the now gone forum topic. I will link that to this blog entry in […]

I planned the first week to be a disciplined approach to doodling lines or that is what it appears to be. Actually, the whole purpose of this week’s exercise is to draw lines in a controlled manner, not completely mindless doodling, and then to observe the effect that the lines have on the drawing as […]

Monday, Aug. 27, we had the first day of our last year of homeschooling. When my first child was in his last year of homeschooling, I felt rather sad. This time around, it is different. I will be completely finished and I think I am looking forward to being finished.
My daughter has only four subjects, […]