I am so completely thrilled. This was the week – the homeschool – I hoped for. Oh, it was not perfect. We still had children pushing back over assigned work, some. Monday was the best day of school we’ve had in years. Tuesday was harder. Wednesday, early, we had a “Come to Jesus” moment. Things…
I’m so excited to host my first guest post ever from my friend Candace. She has written a wonderfully helpful post on learning to love God’s Word. In her story I find that her patience, reliance, and trust in God were rewarded. I want to learn to revel now – my patience is in short…
I continue reading Karen Glass’ Consider This. This week, I read Chapters 2 and 3. Early in Chapter 2, Glass gives us a vision of how the answer to the question “what is man?” makes a huge impact on how we educate: If we answer the question “what is man?” with “man is a living…
Celeste at Joyous Lessons is starting a new monthly linkup series on “Keeping” as described in Laurie Bestvater’s book, The Living Page. I have not yet read that, but thought I’d share a couple of pages from my Commonplace Books. I love when Celeste shares on Wednesdays with Words. She generally shares a picture of…
What a great game! Ezekiel Elliott ran all over Oregon. The Silver Bullets smothered Heisman Trophy winner Marcus Mariotta. Led by the next group of Super Sophomores. And Urban Meyer forces me to take back my dislike of his spread (although that looked like Big Ten football to me, run it up the gut) WooHoo!…
FOR TODAY – CHAMPIONSHIP GAMEDAY Outside my window… Jason says it is icy and slushy, but if it gets colder it’ll really freeze hard. I am thinking… about our first day of lessons today. I think we’re all ready. The two older children both mentioned yesterday that they were excited about our new direction. The…
Welcome to the School Starts on Monday Edition of my Weekly Reports for 2015! It is my goal to put together a report of our schooling every Friday afternoon when we’ve done a week of school. Because we have major changes in our homeschool for the 2015 Academic Year, I’m going to post today first,…
Yesterday, I decided to start sharing with you my current book bag in a blatant attempt to create accountability in my reading and to read widely with discernment. I hope to share this feature every other week here at ladydusk. I really do have a book bag. Years ago at the Cincinnati Homeschool Convention, Memoria…
Over the weekend, I talked about the schedule change we’ll make for the Big Blocks of Time. I want to think about the schedule change for the small blocks of time, the days and weeks, too. After prayer, discussion with my husband, discussion with trusted advisors, I’ve decided to do Year 4 of Ambleside Online…
In Chapter 1 of Consider This, Karen Glass writes about Charlotte Mason and her development as a Educational Philosopher. The reader might not think a chapter such as this would hold nuggets of philosophy to consider. The reader would be wrong. Glass shows from Mason’s own writings how she was able to read widely, delve…