I’m posting over at They Call Me Blessed today in my friend Ana Willis’ 30 Ways We Homeschool Blog Party. I met Ana on Periscope through Amy Milcic‘s Rock Your Homeschool! morning show and we’ve gotten to know each other some more on Periscope. For the month of June, thirty different homeschool bloggers are sharing…
You know how sometimes when you start considering an ideas, it starts to show up in all sorts of places. What is the place of generalization as we educate our children in the 21st Century? What is the place of specialization? So many educators – of the homeschool and school variety – are enamored by…
I have long considered Cindy Rollins one of my Homeschooling Mentors. Her now defunct blog, Ordo Amoris, was pivotal to drawing me away from neo-classicism and into a more traditional Classical educational system via Charlotte Mason. Her book clubs (though I failed to finish a single one with the group) led to some of the…
On Saturday, I published a post about how I see education as a Giant Jigsaw Puzzle. I forgot that just last week, I had read a quote that went perfectly with my post. I found it again Monday night at my CM group meeting where we’re studying using Brandy Vencel’s Start Here as our guide. Brandy…
From Susan Schaeffer Macaulay’s For the Children’s Sake: The child should enjoy an atmosphere where life can be explored in a rich way. Little holy hedges are not what is wanted. Understanding the objective certainty of the truth of God gives an atmosphere that is free from fear. We can face up to people’s ideas….
We had a week that improved as it went on. It started out rough, as it often does, and improved to Friday’s excellent day. Sometimes in homeschooling that groove is important. I was so thankful that I had done planned out the week for both Circle Time and the rest of our lessons. I want the…
So, I did one of these posts about a month ago in July, then we went on vacation. We had a week of preparation, where we did some lessons, cleaned, and packed. We had the week of vacation itself, which was a wonderful time. We came home and had a pre-planned reset week where we…
For Today… Monday, August 17, 2015 Outside my window….it looks like there might be some sun shining through the cracks in the blinds. I haven’t really looked, yet. I suspect it’s going to be another hot day. I am thinking… about what it will be like to have only two children for the next couple of…
You probably know that I was on vacation with no internet last week because Anna did a fabulous job hosting Wednesdays With Words from her new (beautiful) internet home Little Drops of Water. We were on a Disney cruise. A generous gift. It was wonderful and relaxing, and frankly I didn’t think about the post…
As many of you who have followed our story know, we changed from straddling the fence between a WTM and Charlotte Mason style of education to CM-only, using the AmblesideOnline curriculum. It was a big change, and it was a good one. Because my children were older, I thought they could use some help seeing…