How you feelin?
"Irie!"
We learned the meaning of this word in the West Indies. It means nice, right, cool in Patois. Patois is a Jamaican language but it is spoken all over the Caribbean. Irie is one of our favorite words.
At our house it starts with an idea from a book, a video, junk mail, a movie a photo. It goes something like this.
"Let's go to the Amazon."The look.
Google is our friend. I have a travel budget and I fund that pot early in the year, so if this sort of request comes early enough in the year, we may end up in the Amazon or Bora Bora. If this suggestion comes when the pot is almost empty, we may end up on a local lake. We have travelin' feet and it doesn't take much to get us on the road.....
Welcome to our blog spot at www.brightkidsathome.com. Travel is an important element of our homeschool, it adds the depth to the extensive reading we enjoy. Travel also adds to our knowledge of society and culture, here in the USA and abroad. With each new advance in technology, the world becomes a more manageable, intimate place. The kids we are homeschooling today are the leaders, entrepreneurs and inventors of tomorrow. They need to be comfortable in the world, they need to recognize that people are basically the same everywhere and what better way to help that along than to make the world your classroom!
Happy Trails!
Life
as a homeschooler and in constant daily contact with a highly gifted student
brings an energy I can't explain, yet drains me; makes me think about
things in a new way, yet causes me to stick with tried and true methods;
makes me strive for accomplishing all the tasks I need to, yet causes
me to think forward to the time my student will go to bed and I can have
a cup of tea and listen to Jimmy Buffet in peace and quiet. Eclectic.
That's the description of the path I am enjoying on my journey right now.
Eclectic is also our homeschool "style". We do what works. We
dig in the dirt or the beach sand, we kayak on rivers, we read, we travel.....