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Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Odysseus and the homeschooler
I just got this via email. It's tool cool not to share.
Emily Salva, age 7, of Franklin, TN, is a homeschooled student. She was studying Greek mythology this year. She wound up making this short video for part of a presentation:
She’s responsible for all the graphics and the narration. Emily is seven years old.
This video short was selected to be screened at the 2008 Nashville Film Festival. (I thought this was kind of a big deal, especially since the video that Emily’s Dad entered got turned down.)
Just about all of the entries in this festival were made by adults. No one else even close to her age had an entry in this festival.
Along with being on the local television news, she also got some attention in some area papers.
Labels: Gifted, homeschool, Tennessee
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Three degrees at 16-years
Don't get the idea your kids are behind. This is one unusual kid.
Andrew Hsu has not yet been on a date or taken his driving test.
But he does have three degrees -- in neurobiology, biochemistry and chemistry. This month, just weeks after his 16th birthday, Hsu became the second-youngest person to graduate from the University of Washington, and the youngest with a triple degree. Starting this summer, he plans to begin his doctoral research into brain function at Stanford University’s medical school.
For Andrew, the UW is where he has grown up. Not just the 1-foot height spurt that began after his freshman year, but also where he began separating his own identity and destiny from the expectations of others.
According to dad David Hsu, a computer-software engineer, Andrew’s unusual talents began revealing themselves at age 2, when he started assembling Lego robots and teaching himself to read. Read more...
Saturday, April 07, 2007
Homeschooling: Trial Size
This great essay on the decision and process of a first-time, short-term homeschooler is very well written and researched. Thanks to HomeSchoolBuzz reader Jenna for sending it.
My ten-year-old daughter, Julia, was never a good fit in the public schools. Her teachers described Julia as a "very creative child," with strong emotions, obsessive interests, and little patience for group activities and social norms. In the classroom, she sat with a book perched on her knees, sneaking dragon stories under her desk and missing the teacher's instructions. On the playground, she avoided the girls' cliques and boys' noisy games, and sat alone in the shade digging for fossils. Every day she came home with another large rock. Read more...
Labels: Gifted
Monday, April 02, 2007
Gifted Children at Home
AT 13, Ng Sai-Choong got bored in seventh grade at his school in Seattle, the United States.
“My Maths teacher had the mentality of a sports coach. He was constantly yelling at us in class as if he was on a basketball court,” he says.
He also did not find the other classes stimulating. Read more...
