This month our family is spending a little time with Renaissance art as we prepare for next semester’s community fine arts projects. We’ve used this Ghiberti art project as one of our advent calendar activities this year. (My inner multi-tasker is loving this killing-two-birds-with-one-stone thing.) Supplies Needed: Ghiberti Picture Study Pages (pictured above) from this Great Artists […]
A corporate mom’s decision to stay at home
Oh, my. As I was scrolling back through past emails in search of job descriptions of my former engineering and education careers, I came across a note I wrote as I made the decision to be a stay-at-home mom. I’m not sure why, but I feel compelled to share it here as one of the most important Ebenezers of my life. […]
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Americas & Antilles Countries Capitals Flashcards
Boy howdy! Survival mode has hit me quite a bit this semester! Between directing a homeschool community, directing a toddler, and directing a middle school student (not to mention the rest of the family), plans just don’t happen as planned around here. I’m often derailed. Not just my plans, but my thought processes in general. […]
European Countries & Capitals Flashcards
We’re studying world geography and wanted to share a little something I made for Stephen (but mainly me, ahem) to give him (or rather, me) a different method of practicing the countries and capitals of Europe. He hasn’t wanted to use Seterra or Quizlet to practice, and drawing and labeling are tough to do when you’re […]
Tin Whistle & Music Theory Notebooking Pages
This simple set of notebooking pages for the study of tin whistle and/or music theory includes staff practice sheets, copywork sheets for the note name rhyme, a finger coding sheet, and a composition sheet. These were taken from our Renaissance & Baroque Composers Fine Arts Notebooking Packet. (Also available are our Impressionists & Classical Composers […]
Latin Noun Declension File Folder Games & Cues {Printables}
Several months ago, someone asked if I had a noun declension game like our verb conjugation file folder game. Since then, I’ve been working on this little somethin’ a little bit at a time (as much as a toddler and life full of other stuff will allow). And finally, it is finished (I think?)! First, […]
What about Worldview? {Studying Ancient Religions}
“Learning to discern the worldviews behind the literature we read or the entertainment we watch is a powerful safeguard against becoming the ‘simple person’ to which Solomon referred.* Many people absorb their worldview from the influences around them rather than learning to think critically about what is being communicated and to evaluate whether or not […]
The Making of a Gigantic Music Staff
Well, I guess we can add this to the list of things I never would have thought to do had it not been for our classical homeschool group – and those precious 4 and 5 year olds who are too cute (and quite perplexing) when being introduced to music theory. For years now our community […]