Designing a home-centered life: learning, exploring, and creating with our five littles
We do lots of little projects on paper in our schooling - copywork, drawing, diagramming, worksheets, cut & paste, etc. My littles really love doing these activities. They're so good for reinforcing memory work and for expounding with more information. We store all of these papers in their notebooks. Each little has a 1.5 inch … [Read more...]
As was previously shown in my school room look, here is our grammar board aka my version of the at home tri-fold board for memory work. I have 8 page protector sleeves hung by binder clips pinned to the cork board with a tack. Each sleeve holds one subject's memory work - Bible passage, Latin, English, History, Science, … [Read more...]
I love peeks into other families' school rooms! Whenever I'm in a friend's home, I want to snoop around their school room to see what tricks they use to organize and how their set-up works for their family of scholars. So, today, I'm giving you a peek into our school room! Giving up our formal dining room, so we could have a dedicated … [Read more...]
We are wrapping up our third year as part of a Classical Conversations community now. In this post, I'm going to do my best to share the basics of how a Classical Conversations community works.Classical Conversations is a Classical, Christian community education program for homeschool families designed with the goal to know God and … [Read more...]
Raise your hand if every day is homeschooling utopia with your family. No? No hands raised? None here either! One of my most favorite things about my group of friends is no matter what kind of day I’ve had with my littles, if I tell my friends, at least one of them can relate. Good? Yup, they’re all cheering me on and sharing their … [Read more...]
UPDATE: Congrats to Ina Daniels Patton, winner of the lapbook giveaway! Ina has been contacted via email. Thanks to everyone who visited & entered! Karen from Wisdom and Righteousness contacted me with a chance to review the My Memory Work Lapbooks she created to complement Classical Conversations Cycle 2. I was … [Read more...]
Our morning collective consists of basically the same 4 elements every day. With children ages 8 through 16, it is still one of my favorite homeschool routines! It is getting trickier to do as high school schedules encroach more, but I'd rather give up other things than this. Learning together is one of my big WHYs for homeschooling, so we keep it … [Read more...]
These favorite toys are the ones our children reach to play with again and again. They also don't break easily. Unless I specify otherwise, we've owned these toys for at least a year and most for much, much longer. Over the door basketball hoop - Y'all, we live where the temperatures drop so low your fingers hurt if you play outside in the … [Read more...]
In the last two weeks, we started our second year of junior high with my oldest. We participate in Classical Conversations, so he is in Challenge B. (And I'm his director! First year Challenge director!) Last year it was really important for me to maintain our shared learning environment in some form, even though he was moving on to more advanced … [Read more...]
Friends, we've been part of a Classical Conversations homeschool community since my oldest was 5. He's now 13 and in Challenge A. All along, I thought I would love to direct a Challenge class one day. Well, everything lined up for me to direct Challenge B next year. My oldest will be entering Challenge B with me and I'm very excited. Most of his … [Read more...]