Miss Jamie

For 2017, I wanted to make Fridays a celebration of the joy of creation and play, as they are the building blocks of all meaningful learning. . Sami Elu is a composer, musician, and instrument inventor based in Tokyo, Japan who creates artful recycled instruments. I love the resonant tones of his chopstick piano. . We are the music-makers,... And we are the dreamers of dreams... we are the movers and shakers, Of the world forever, it seems. . ~A. O'Shaughnessy See more

"The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks." ~C.Hitchens #thursday #thinkday #criticalthinking #education #literacy

For the month of January, my younger homeschoolers and I are pondering the big question: "How can we participate in society?" . To create a better learning environment last week, we created some amendements to our class rules and voted on them. . What do you think is a good way to participate in society?... . While you think, here's my #womancrush for this Wednesday, Malala Yousafzai. . From biography.com: . "Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997, in Mingora, Pakistan. As a child, she became an advocate for girls' education, which resulted in death threats against her. On October 9, 2012, a gunman shot Malala when she was traveling home from school. She survived, and has continued to speak out on the importance of education. She was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2013. In 2014, she was nominated again and won, becoming the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize." . #womancrushwednesday #homeschool #literacy #education #humanrights #infolit See more

Challenge of the day: When you walk out the door next, look up. Post what you noticed here. . Wonder is everywhere. . "When I heard the learn’d astronomer; ... When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; 5 Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars." . ~Walt Whitman . #transformationtuesday #teaching #homeschool See more