Designing a home-centered life: learning, exploring, and creating with our five littles
History - Read (probably not all of) the Magna Carta.Latin - Use the Latin pronunciation helps to practice endings.English - Have boys group themselves or things into nominative pronouns and take a picture of that pronoun example. Each boy will take a turn reciting and photographing, so the pronoun example is from their … [Read more...]
Do y'all remember my series entitled At Home with the Classical Method? In it, I shared some things I learned from reading The Core. Do you want to know more, but can't quite find the time to read The Core yet? Then these series of articles written by guest poster, Jennifer Courtney, from the Classical Conversations Writers Circle are for … [Read more...]
History - We'll play hit back and forth with toy swords while reciting our memory work. Or so, I think. I'll keep you posted if this works or turns into more war than recitation!Latin - Use the Latin pronunciation helps to practice the endings. English - Recite the pronoun order. If my guys need extra help remembering, I plan … [Read more...]
I love seeing the beauty in our regular days. I need to capture these beautiful moments. So, I do. Kind of a lot. Some messy, some silly, and some that nearly take my breath away. Together they form a bit of picture diary of this season. Of working hard, of messy, of play, of laughs, of tears, of learning, of … [Read more...]
History - Play "pass the crown" with our homemade lace crowns, as each one of us says one word of the history sentence until we have it memorized.Latin - Match the Latin endings using two copies of the Latin pronounciation helps. All the while, we'll be reciting the endings.English - Recite the memory work together. I'll write a … [Read more...]
I've made my Popsicle Pick game...finally! I had the idea last year, but just made time to bang it out. I'm excited to add it to our short list of simple ways to review our memory work.I took the color assigned to each subject on the memory master flashcards and painted one end of a popsicle stick to match. They're shown here … [Read more...]
Here we go! The first week! I know some of you in other parts of the country have already begun, but we're just about to embark on our first week. I'm hoping to get a few weeks ahead of our schedule here, so if you want to follow the same plans as us, you can! This year I have a seven (nearly eight) year old, six year old, and four year old in … [Read more...]
Please welcome my friend, Michelle Balisalisa, as she shares A Day in the Life of her sweet family. Michelle and I met a few years ago through mutual friends and have gotten to know each other better through our shared CC campus. Michelle and her husband Ralph are generous, fun, and hard-working. I hope you enjoy this look into … [Read more...]
In ten ways to destroy the imagination of your child, Anthony Esolen writes an "indispensable guide to overcoming today's treacherous trends in parenting and education -- and the overwhelming banality of contemporary culture." Esolen's scope is broad, but my focus was narrow. I looked for how these cultural shifts, which Esolen strongly argues are … [Read more...]
In history this year, we'll be doing lots of memory work and reading around king and kingdoms. I will often hear my littles reenacting our history for the week. So for fun and for review, I thought it would be fun to make crowns for them to wear. I used this tutorial as a guide with a few changes.I bought 4 different laces to use … [Read more...]