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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Tag Archives: drawing
The things we find
My dad was a cartographer. A whole lot of my childhood drawings, right through into my teenage years, were drawn on the backs of maps. I love maps. As a kid, in the days before GPS, I would always … Continue reading
Posted in Geography
Tagged bloke, drawing, homeschool, imagination, learning in context, maps, math
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My first lesson
So it’s the start of the school year. If my oldest boy was not being homeschooled, he would be starting kindergarten. After several years of pushing the idea around, we decide to commit to it. We don’t send him to … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, Teaching and learning
Tagged bloke, drawing, flexibility, homeschool, math, negotiation, ocean, philosophy, self determination
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