Designing a home-centered life: learning, exploring, and creating with our five littles
Did you attend the Classical Conversations practicum with your child in a camp this year? If so, you received this month's book club selection, ten ways to destroy the imagination of your child (I kept the title lowercase here, because that's how it's printed on the book cover! Which by the way, I like!). I have yet to crack the spine on this … [Read more...]
Classical Christian Education Made Approachable (henceforth called CCEMA) felt very much like a simplified synopsis of much of what I've read about classical education this summer and before. It is a short, simple, and meaningful read defining classical, Christian education and answering the questions of how then shall we study and what then … [Read more...]
He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust, He knew no more that he was poor, Or that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy ways And this bequest of wings Was but a book. What liberty A loosened spirit brings. - Emily Dickinson, The Poems of Emily Dickinson "Children don't stumble onto good books by themselves; … [Read more...]
UPDATE: Congrats Aimee Zoppi Confer, you are the winner! Aimee has been contacted via email. Thanks to everyone for entering and congrats again to Aimee!CC at Home Book Club selection #3 is Classical Christian Education Made Approachable. Have you read selections #1 and #2 with us? I hope so! If so, this is 3 out of 4 we'll be … [Read more...]
"Teaching reading is best done with a child on someone’s lap. Teaching math is best done sitting near a student as they work through a text. Teaching writing is best done through sharing the joy of words on paper." (p.63)Oh, friends, I was due a reminder that teaching my children at home is a JOY! I often feel the weight of the responsibility and … [Read more...]
Looking to understand the nuts and bolts of how to begin a classical education without much other commentary? Check out The Well Trained Mind. The authors, Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer (mother and daughter team), give specifics on how to classically educate from preschool through twelfth grade. This is why it's considered standard … [Read more...]
UPDATE: Addie Krull, congrats!, you are the winner of a copy of Echo in Celebration! Friends, the CC at Home book club selection #2 is Echo in Celebration: A Call to Home Centered Education by Leigh Bortins. I've only just begun reading Echo. I recently finished re-reading Leigh's The Core and I must say, the feel of them is so … [Read more...]
First book club selection completed! Here's my review --Teaching the Trivium: Christian Homeschooling in a Classical Style is written by Harvey and Laurie Bluedorn, "parents of five children whom they have always homeschooled." In this book, their expressed purpose is to share with the reader what they have learned through many years of … [Read more...]
New Update: Since I have not heard from Kara, a new winner was randomly selected today. I have private messaged Rhianna Garber and will be waiting to hear from her. Congrats, Rhianna!UPDATE: Kara, entry #77 & winner, I have not yet heard from you! Please contact me ASAP! If I don't hear from Kara by midnight on Sunday, May … [Read more...]
We are finished our official math studies for the year, but math is on my mind! I'd say it's due to 1) reading what Leigh Bortins recently wrote about knowing math history and 2) my building excitement for this year's CC practicum focusing on math. Both of these things are causing me to think of math in new ways. My previously held opinion of … [Read more...]