Cindy at Ordo Amoris (formerly Dominion Family) continues to remain one of my absolute favorite Bloggers. Right now, she’s blogging through Norms and Nobility by David Hicks.  I have long wanted to read this book and have tried in the past, but the book intimidates me.  It is so full of ideas that each page…

God’s Alphabet for Life by Joel Beeke and Heidi Boorsma is a fantastic family devotional, especially for the low, low price of $6.  (Frankly, I’ve been completely pleased by every purchase I’ve made from Reformation Heritage Books and would highly recommend them to anyone interested in Reformed books.) I’ve noticed that many devotional books for…

The Arm of the Starfish is a fantastic read; the wiki provides a fantastic plot summary for those interested.  Interesting, dealing with difficult themes, well written, and engaging.  It looks as though it is out of print, which is a shame.  L’Engle, as always, has some problematic universalism and pairs some theistic evolution into this…

I’ve been reading Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics for several weeks now, and finally finished it.  This was a worthwhile read.  The book is Liping Ma’s doctoral dissertation.  For her research, Liping Ma compared the “Profound Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics” between American elementary teachers and Chinese elementary math teachers.   The results are fascinating and disturbing…

I think Jason’s favorite part of homeschooling is our Saturday recitation session. Let me start with our 30 minute (ha! closer to 45 and we’re going to have to make it an hour soon) daily Circle Time.  School starts with Circle Time, we  pray sing the Doxology recite (Nicene Creed) sing our hymn for the…