Dave Pommier
I am a homeschooling dad with a wife and two boys. I'm not quite sure what I'm doing, so I feel compelled to write it all down. In my spare time, I work as a manager for the local health district, drink too much coffee, and am an overenthusiastic martial artist.
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Category Archives: Science
Lembas bread
The Lord of the Rings features pretty large at our house. We have watched the movies countless times, and have just finished reading the graphic novel version of The Hobbit again. My eldest boy draws lots of Orthanc like towers … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Science
Tagged bloke, cooking, homeschool, imagination, The Lord of the Rings
6 Comments
Up the creek
My wife is planning a career change, and as part of this, she is studying to get her next degree online. She has set up a small room as a study, and often works from there. One of the things … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, Science
Tagged bloke, flexibility, homeschool, learning in context, nature, science, shells
2 Comments
It’s not part of the syllabus
I found myself having a barely restrained argument earlier in the year. A retired school teacher was standing in my kitchen, and we had just gotten onto the subject of cuisinaire rods. I had just been showing off the new … Continue reading
Posted in Math, Science, Teaching and learning
Tagged bloke, cuisenaire rods, curriculum, homeschool, learning in context, math, play, science
16 Comments
The state of things
Here at Bloke School, we spend a large proportion of our time studying science in one form or another. It was kind of ironic that our initial approach to this field of reasoning and deduction was fairly haphazard. We were … Continue reading
Posted in Science, Teaching and learning
Tagged bloke, easy complexity, experimentation, homeschool, imagination, learning in context, science
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