Yeah, so the Chicago Homeschool Meet-up group went under. I was totally thinking about keeping it going, until I noticed that the organizer has to pay a fee. A what? Charging me money to volunteer? On a website? Ugh. Nah, it doesn’t work that way for me. I think they should get their money […]

Time for a virtual fire house tour! Visit the Illinois Fire Safe Kids. True firefighting fans won’t even notice that their webpage is due for a flash update.

(A child engaged in dissecting a whole fake frog)
For a minute there I got all excited about going to LosAngeles to attend the Generationhome conference of 2007, with such awesome speakers as Jane Goodall and Eric Utne. Then I clicked on over and saw the conference was postponed until 2008.
From what I can gather, it […]

Do you have a homeschooling child of reading age? If so, chances are you know all about Eragon and how it was written by a man named Chirstopher Paolini, and how he was homeschooled and wrote the book while being homeschooled. Well, Eragon and Eldest have been an ongoing obsession of my 10-year-old for over […]

For a few years now there has been quite a homeschool theatre scene developing in Chicago. Kelly Ann is the new director of it all and she has a way with kids that keeps them coming back. She is hoping to find a few more teens especially to fill in the gaps. Kelly Ann’s bio […]

Clonlara Homeschooling Open House
Portage Park Center for the Arts
5801 W. Dakin
Chicago
Friday, January 26,2007 at 6:30 PM
Three local Clonlara advisers with a total of 83 years of personal experience will be there to present Clonlara’s program and answer questions. Open to anyone interested. Free. snacks will be provided. Children welcome. For further information contact Dorothy Werner […]

Wow, Leaping from the Box bills itself as the resource that is there to help homeschoolers who want to escape a cookie-cutter mentality. I haven’t explored much yet but they have a fairly comprehensive resource list of alternative homeschooling groups in the region…ones I haven’t even seen yet. And believe me I troll for them.

(Tukasa drummers, who will be opening for the upcoming In-Home conference)
It is an annual tradition for homeschoolers all around Chicago. Soon we’ll be packling up our bags, our bathing suits, our snacks and diapers and iPods, our puzzles and knitting projects and great reams of paper and crayons and heading to the upcoming In-Home conference […]

Yesterday morning, I was sitting at a service while a Unitarian minister asked a bunch of kids what they knew about Martin Luther King Jr. One little girl gave a rather thorough explanation of his life’s works. Then the minister asked if anyone else had something to add. A small boy, and this time it […]

Is your little Einstein a naturalist at heart? Do you like to drive really far to Schaumburg? Is history a deep well your child can’t drink enough from? Well, even if the answer to all of those questions happens to be a resounding no, you’ll be glad to hear about some upcoming classes about town […]