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 registered nurse, drink too much coffee, and intermittently renovate the house.Top Posts & Pages
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Tag Archives: experimentation
The catapult
After a week of heavy rains, he had cabin fever. The day lurched along in a not very productive fashion, and then stopped. Lessons were clearly over. I acquiesced, and we settled in to play with Lego. Inspired by a … Continue reading
Posted in Math, Science
Tagged bloke, experimentation, homeschool, learning in context, Lego, math, play, science
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Playing with fire
Shortly before we started homeschooling, I asked my boy what sort of things he would like to learn about. First on the list was lighting a match. It seems that all kids have a fascination with fire. According to our … Continue reading
Posted in Experimentation, Science
Tagged bloke, candles, experimentation, homeschool, science
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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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Playing with bark
I have been looking at local history in a fairly half hearted fashion lately. These history lessons come about partly because I wanted to instill the idea in the boys that the world they look at is both very new … Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged bloke, experimentation, history, homeschool, local history, nature, play, science
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Easy complexity
Although our maths lessons contain basics like counting, adding, subtracting, and grouping things, I find it much more interesting to explore mathematical concepts. I have seen quite a lot of people discussing moebius noodles, and have just recently managed to … Continue reading
Posted in Experimentation, Math
Tagged bloke, easy complexity, experimentation, homeschool, math, play, radial symmetry
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I’ve made paint
Walking outside to investigate a suspicious silence, I stepped into the verandah to be met with a eureka-like ‘Dad. I’ve made paint!’ There he stood with a bucket and paintbrush. One of the trees, a fair few of the verandah … Continue reading
Posted in Experimentation
Tagged bloke, confidence, experimentation, homeschool, imagination, learning in context, painting, play, science
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