Designing a home-centered life: learning, exploring, and creating with our five littles
Y'all, this girl gives me grace upon grace. I have stumbled, more than once, in front of her and she has kindly and generously encouraged me and supported me. God is using her to work in my life and I'm grateful!Please welcome my friend Kim to the A Day in the Life series today. Perhaps those with teenagers will especially find the change in … [Read more...]
Math seems to require the most concentration for my littles. Even with the struggle (or because of it), this is good exercise for their brain. But, you know training and exercise is hard work. Sometimes you just want to have fun without realizing you're "working out." For these moments, here are some fun ways we've … [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...]
In honor of April being Math Awareness Month (No, I did not know this until CC told me!), I wanted to share why we use Saxon math, a round-up of my posts on how to teach math classically, and a favorite article or two on math from the CC Writers Circle.Nearly three years ago, we started with Saxon Math. As with making any educational … [Read more...]
This seems to be the time of year when the questions begin. Are we homeschooling again next year? Should we switch some things we're doing? Or all the things we're doing? Am I doing enough as their teacher? How much did they really learn this year? Let me ask you a question that should quiet the rest. Why are you homeschooling? Don't know why? … [Read more...]
Classical Conversations is a classical, Christian education. Some might see those words placed together and not see the connection. In fact, some might go as far as to say they don't connect. It probably won't surprise you to hear me say, well, they do go together! Actually, I'm a firm believer that classical + Christian are … [Read more...]
Y'all, please welcome back my friend, Becki Hogan. Becki and her husband blog at Running with Team Hogan. Through learning about a new subject, Becki was able to learn more about classical education. I can relate! When you understand classical education, you see learning -on any subject- through a new lens. Read to … [Read more...]
Everyone in my home loves nature study. When it's warm and beautiful or even warm and rainy, we head outside to make observations, take photographs, and draw. But, with the combination of my pregnancy sickness and our seemingly never-ending Northeast winter, we've been inside a lot for nature studies lately. Here's how we've … [Read more...]
History: Color picture of Nelson Mandela while reciting history sentence. (Plenty of activity sheets available, too.)English: I plan to dramatically recite sentences with interjections to see if my littles can pick out the interjections. For example, "Duck! There's a low branch!" Once they get the hang of it, they'll probably like … [Read more...]
History: March like soldiers around our home while reciting the history sentence. Perhaps we'll assign two different rooms to be the United States and Kuwait. English: We're going to write a noun in the center of our chalkboard and add modifiers answering the adjective questions. For example, brothers could be our noun in the … [Read more...]