Designing a home-centered life: learning, exploring, and creating with our five littles
Our family LOVES to travel! We have adopted the goal of visiting all "50 States Before They Graduate" as our own. Besides the hundreds of photographs I take while we travel, we also have two other main forms for documenting our travels. The first, my children's travel notebooks. They each have a 3 ring notebook in their favorite color. … [Read more...]
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...]
As we enter our 3rd week of CC at home, we're tweaking our daily schedule a bit to smooth out some rough spots. Our original schedule is below with changes in bold. 7:00 AM I wake up, work out/shower, coffee/read Bible & pray8:00 AM littles wake up/straighten/brush teeth/get dressed8:30 AM eat breakfast & clean up … [Read more...]
Today after reviewing our timeline, we read the reverse of the first card. We plan to read the back of 1-2 cards a day. We also spontaneously decided to locate the ancient civilizations on our modern day map. That was great fun for all of us! and really helped give us context before we read in The Story of the World. I love … [Read more...]
Okay, so the youngest two are not in CC classes, but boy would they like to be! & I certainly couldn't keep them from getting their "first day" pictures taken. We had a wonderful first day! How about you? Have you started? Hope it went (or will go!) well! … [Read more...]
I read Leigh Bortins' The Core over the summer along with The Well Trained Mind by Susan Wise Bauer and Jessie Wise. Both books had such a grounding effect on my thoughts for teaching my children and really connected the dots for me about classical education. So, in the midst of all the planning, and as we prepare to start at … [Read more...]
Many of our notebook pages will not come from pre-made worksheets, but some will! I've selected the ones I think we'll be using for the first 12 weeks of cycle one and thought I'd share the links with you now. I picked ones that I thought would be most relevant to our weekly grammar, that my littles could mostly complete independently, and … [Read more...]
For this second How We Do Review post, I'll be sharing how we review grammar at home for each of the seven subjects covered through CC - history, latin, english, science, math, geography, and fine arts. I divide up or group the subjects based on how much time I think we'll need for each one and how our extra activities factor in to our time. … [Read more...]