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Welcome to The Podcast with Suzanne and Amy, brought to you by home | school | life magazine, the smart magazine for secular homeschoolers. In this biweekly conversation, we’ll be talking about the places where home, school, and life intersect, from fielding questions about how you’ll ever teach calculus to pondering how to use all those years of learning together as a springboard for life after homeschool. Plus: Lots and lots of books.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Education Podcasts
Description:
Welcome to The Podcast with Suzanne and Amy, brought to you by home | school | life magazine, the smart magazine for secular homeschoolers. In this biweekly conversation, we’ll be talking about the places where home, school, and life intersect, from fielding questions about how you’ll ever teach calculus to pondering how to use all those years of learning together as a springboard for life after homeschool. Plus: Lots and lots of books.
Twitter:
@hsl_mag
Language:
English
Website:
http://homeschoollifemag.com/
Episodes
Episode 20: What Makes a Great Homeschool Year?
8/14/2020
In this episode of the Podcast with Suzanne and Amy, we're talking about what planning for the new homeschool year looks like for us (it's a lot more relaxed than you might think), how we're navigating a weird quarantine world full of changes and disappointments with our kids and ourselves, and some particularly good books we've been reading lately.
Duration:01:03:11
Episode 19: White Privilege and Homeschooling
7/13/2020
In this episode of the Podcast with Suzanne and Amy, we're talking about recognizing and navigating white privilege in our homeschool lives — plus how we handle end-of-the-year evaluations in our homeschools and some great books we've been reading lately.
Duration:01:06:20
Episode 18: The Power of a Plan
6/8/2020
In this episode of the Podcast with Suzanne and Amy, we're talking about the power of long-term planning in your homeschool (plus tips on how to actually, you know, long-term plan!), what it feels like to graduate a homeschooler (which Amy recently did, in case you missed her five million other posts about it!), and what we're reading and watching lately, both academically (a great history of a Japanese city) and not-so-much (now is the time for comfort television). It's been a little while,...
Duration:01:17:46
Episode 17: Tag Your Files and Other Lessons Learned
1/11/2020
In this extra-long episode, we're talking about what we've learned over the course of our homeschool lives so far, our favorite gaming distraction, and a new generation of comfort books.
Duration:01:03:06
Episode 16.5: A Sneak Peek at the Library Chicken Podcast
12/7/2019
In this episode, we’re talking about the weird coincidence of giant underwater monsters in our recent fun reading, the joys of the end of the term, and what we’re looking forward to reading over the upcoming holiday break.
Duration:00:45:26
Episode 16: Well, That's Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Us Into
4/27/2019
We're talking about starting a hybrid homeschool (it's all about the lists), time travel stories, and our current adventures in homeschooling, including dual enrollment and trying to get math credit for homeschool work at a public high school.
Duration:01:03:16
Episode 15: Adventures in Middle School
3/5/2019
In this episode of the podcast, we're talking all about middle school: what it can be, what it often ends up being, what we regret, what we love, what we'd like to do differently, and why it can feel so darn hard.
Duration:00:43:38
Episode 14: More Questions Than Answers
2/5/2019
In this episode, we're talking about the big homeschool questions on our minds these days, what's happening our very transitional homeschools, and the delightful Space Opera.
Duration:00:55:22
Episode 13.5: She Ain't Got that Swing (Thanks for Noticing)
1/20/2019
How do you get your homeschool groove back after a break?
Duration:00:07:44
Episode 13: We Think We Can, We Think We Can
10/9/2017
In this long, long-awaited episode, we’re dusting off our headphones to talk about how the new homeschool year is going, what’s keeping us busy, all the television Suzanne is generously watching for us, and the sci-fi novel Ancillary Justice. We’re back!
Duration:00:57:41
Episode 12: Pollen! (Also: How We Teach Language Arts)
3/19/2017
In this allergy medicine-fueled episode, we’re talking about how we teach (and don’t teach) language arts in our homeschool, from workbooks to deliberate avoidance, sharing our favorite podcasts that aren’t this one, and talking about that delightful comfort book, 84 Charing Cross Road.
Duration:01:23:03
Episode 11: The Orange Elephant in the Room and Finding a New Normal
2/20/2017
In this episode, we’re trying to come to terms with a new normal and nervously peeking out of our political closets, talking about how we homeschool when all we want to do is hide under the covers and/or obsessively check the news (spoiler: sometimes we just don’t), and trying to get back on the book reading wagon with a comfort read classic.
Duration:01:32:24
Episode 10: The Lost Episode Is the Math Episode, But It’s Not a Metaphor, We Promise
12/15/2016
In this episode we’re talking about math, math, and more math, including our favorite homeschool math curriculum options, chatting about British television, British writers, and the historical plight of women married to Percy Shelley, trying to explain the awesomeness of Suzanne’s Bag of Justice, and the puzzling out the problem with Atticus Finch.
Duration:01:18:49
Episode 9: When the Going Gets Tough
11/20/2016
In this episode, we’re coming out of our pillow forts to talk about how to homeschool through challenging times, our favorite coping mechanisms (including the Library Chicken Book Bender exception), and some of the titles on our comfort reading lists.
Duration:00:47:31
Episode 8: You Might Have Mentioned That a Little Sooner
10/29/2016
In this episode, we’re talking about things we wish someone had told us before we started homeschooling, adventures in the Twitterverse, library chicken victories, starting a liberal arts high school, and Lab Girl by Hope Jahrens.
Duration:01:02:01
Episode 7: Making (Up) the Grade
9/27/2016
In this (slightly all-over-the-place) episode, we’re talking about how to figure grades for transcripts if you’re in a situation where something’s forcing you to figure grades for transcripts, superheroes who like saving the day, Veronica Mars in the afterlife, what’s happening in library chicken, and many, many books.
Duration:01:02:00
Episode 6: But Why Do I Have to Do This?
9/2/2016
In this episode, we’re talking about how to handle it when a kid just plain doesn’t want to do something on your homeschool’s academic to-do list (and, for the billionth time, about how Amy stopped doing math for two years and the world did not explode around her homeschool), what we’re up to on the homefront, and Five Children on the Western Front, Kate Saunders’ tribute to the great E. Nesbit.
Duration:00:46:58
Episode 5: I Do Not Think That Word Means What You Think It Means
8/15/2016
In this episode, we’re talking about the dreaded “S” word, socialization, and what it does and doesn’t mean and about how homeschoolers find friends and build social networks, which isn’t the same thing as being socialized, darn it. Also: Star Trek, All the Birds in the Sky, and more.
Duration:00:58:13
Episode 4: If Fall Is Approaching, We Must Need School Supplies
8/1/2016
In this episode, we’re talking about how we gear up for a new homeschool year (school supplies and denial are involved), the done list versus the to-do list, nerdy movies, getting your AP class approved, Aaron Burr in history and in Gore Vidal’s Burr, and more.
Duration:01:27:26
Episode 3: But How Will You Teach Calculus?
7/18/2016
In this episode, we’re answering the weird curriculum questions people always seem to ask homeschoolers and the curriculum questions we ask ourselves, the rules of library chicken, domesticity vs. housework, and the deliciously Victorian dragon society in Jo Walton’s Tooth and Claw.
Duration:01:03:43