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It’s so different to have a fox right near you instead of on video. You can see their intelligence. – Shay In the eighth post from A Summer of Stories, I had an opportunity to chat with Shay, 13, and her mum, Vadette, about her lifelong love of animals and her adventure earlier this summer […]

I feel like I’ve gotten sharper. You need quick hand/finger reflexes to react and build quickly. – Angus So far, since July, I have read over 1600 minutes! – Lucas We took care of our neighbour’s flowers and earned some money so so we went to Toys R Us and bought Nerf guns. – Grady

In the sixth post from A Summer of Stories, which has been focusing on different examples of self- directed learning, I’m sharing snippets and snapshots of the things that pique our interests everyday. And by people, I mean a variety of people – people that I’ve seen out and about, talked to and those in

I would also say you are never too old to learn. – Cameron This is our fifth story/interview from A Summer of Stories. You can read the introductory post and the previous four here. Cameron and I have known each other for a full decade as of this past spring. It seems unbelievable, but it’s

I bought a little book, learned a few tunes and then started playing by ear. – Ian My first “music memory” is of me, as a little girl, singing Suzy Snowflake with two cousins at a ladies’ meeting …  – Sharon  Onto our next story/interview in a Summer of Stories! You can read the first here, the

You have to give them lots of water, lots of sun, and lots of love – Caileigh I like creating my own recipes. – Clare This is our third interview/story in the Summer of Stories. You can read the first one here and the second one here. Now, on with the third:). Clare and Caileigh

Yes, I am an active and lifelong learner.  – Eileen This is our second story for our Summer of Stories which takes a close and personalized look at self-directed learning. If you missed the first one last week, you can read the wonderful conversation Linda and I had, entitled A Life of Learning, Growing and

It’s whatever people have in their heads and hearts that directs them to where they go. – Linda Dawe Linda is someone I have had the pleasure of knowing in one way or another for almost two decades. I had the opportunity to get to know Linda through her daughter, Tiffany, who is my age,

A Summer of Stories – Self-directed Learning All Around Sometimes it seems as if stories just need to be told. For me, I often notice a tidbit here and a snippet there about somebody and it piques my interest. At some point I become fascinated enough that I’d like to understand more. Specifically, there have

One of the pieces that comes to mind when I think of home education is the benefit to communities. I’m not referring to homeschool communities themselves, either in-person or online (those are of  great value too, but intentional community happens within any number of places like schools, churches and more), but to the natural, physical