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: local history
Daily life in Woolgoolga
I am writing this as a blog challenge from an Opinionated Man on daily life around the world. I live outside a small coastal town just down the road from Coffs Harbour on the north coast of NSW, Australia. It is … Continue reading
Posted in Life experiences
Tagged bloke, bush turkey, homeschool, life experience, local history, ocean, washing line
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Arrawarra fish traps
Stone age cultures seem to get a raw deal from historians. This is probably because they leave no written records, and relatively few archaeological remains. Also, they lived a lifestyle with almost no cultural commonality to people alive today, which makes … Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged bloke, history, homeschool, learning in context, local history, ocean
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Teddy bears picnic
I had never considered that a teddy bears picnic would be something I would be involved in with the boys. The other day, however, it surfaced that the two teddies, Hottie and Licorice Bone, were having a birthday. It was unclear … Continue reading
Posted in History, Nature
Tagged bloke, confidence, flexibility, homeschool, local history, nature, ocean, play
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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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