Christian homeschooling integrating Classical and Charlotte Mason principles
As we approach the end of the semester, we plan to continue our study of the War that Crossed Five Aprils even into our winter break. We hope to visit a few of our state’s Civil War sites over the holidays as a review of many of the projects we’ve completed (or will complete) as […]
During my first years of homeschooling, many questions plagued me, especially as we found ourselves in the midst of a community of classical educators… Why introduce my children to cursive handwriting? Why emphasize the mundane act of copywork? Why read poetry, much less memorize it? Although I liked the idea of a classical education for […]
For the past couple of weeks, we’ve enjoyed reading a collection of books set during the time of the Underground Railroad: Follow the Drinking Gourd A picture book about “Peg Leg Joe,” a conductor of the Underground Railroad who teaches a folk song to slaves to give them directions to follow the path to freedom. Here’s […]
Let’s see… we studied the War of 1812 almost a month ago, but we had a special arrival that caused me to embrace my natural tendency towards procrastination. After all, he would only be home a week before heading to Greece… Yes… that is the *real* Parthenon (not the one in Nashville). My husband sent […]
Last year I shared about the Pumpkin Prayer, which has become a special tradition in our family even though we seem to change it up a bit each year. Last week we came across another version of “The Pumpkin Prayer” (author unknown) that we used for carving our pumpkin this year. We also fine-tuned a […]
A few weeks ago, we came across a simple timed multiplication drill for students of different abilities where each student works on a specific fact family as needed. In this case, our eleven-year-old practiced his x 12 facts (pictured above) while our 8-year-old practiced his x 2 facts. Both filled in the left side of […]
As I prepared our reading plan for American History, it didn’t occur to me that the price of William Bennett’s Children’s Treasury of Virtues might increase. Evidently, it’s out of print, so the price didn’t increase by just a little bit. It went up almost ten-fold! But, as is the nature with Amazon and supply-and-demand, the price […]
Do you ever feel like you miss the boat on something? That’s me right now. Last year our family embarked on hymn study for the first time, and now I realize how much we’ve missed it. How could I forget something so obvious, especially when founding truths can be so simply etched upon our hearts […]
Howdy, friends! We’ve been a-takin’ a step back in time to the early 1800s, learnin’ about such thangs as the War of 1812, the Oregon Trail, the Underground Railroad, and the California Gold Rush. I reckon we oughtta tell ya a bit about it, so listen up now. Here’s a glimpse of what we’ve been […]
