About This Blog

Hi, I’m Suji. And I home educate my fun-loving, only child.

We are a family of three Malaysians who lived in Malaysia and Singapore before moving to sunny California in Dec 2005. Our son, or the kiddo as I refer to in this blog, was born in 2002. The kiddo is now nine in chronological age (as of 2012) but all over the map in grade level.

The Funschooling Story

We homeschool, or rather funschool, because I simply cannot imagine the kiddo thriving in a formal, traditional, brick-and-mortar learning environment. We experimented with a private kindy in 2007. The experiment failed after just three weeks. The kiddo wanted very much to continue learning at home. So, we followed his desire and will continue to do so till he wants a change.

We jumped into "official" homeschooling almost overnight. I was very unprepared. And so began homeschooling in a typical school-at-home fashion. I tried many different homeschooling methods when he was five and six, flitting anxiously from one to another hoping always to find that perfect fit. When he was seven, I decided to let go of methods and choose a more eclectic path.

Ever since, we've been using living books, puzzles and comics or DVDs and books on tape as well as field trips, online class, co-ops, even college-level texts. Some of it is assigned, much of it is delight-directed. We follow a simple schedule but it's only a guideline. We are learning all the time.

I began this blog in 2008 as a place to park all the great links and information I come across. I hope it will be beneficial to my readers. 

Since the beginning of official homeschooling, we've been with either an independent study program (ISP) or a homeschool charter (both are based on the public school model although almost nothing we do is "public school-ish" in nature). It's fortunate that although it has been compulsory for us to meet a school representative every month and hand in attendance forms, we enjoy a lot of flexibility in how we learn.

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I hope you will find this an entertaining and perhaps even helpful blog. If you're a homeschooler or book addict like I am, there are many booklists and useful links on this site. So be sure to explore them before you leave! And feel free to drop me a comment or ask a question anytime.