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...]
Classical Conversations recently sent me the new math facts flashcards to review. Before now, all of our math flashcards were either bought second-hand or homemade. I hadn't considered there could be variety among math flashcards. But, there is! 2 things that make the Classical Conversations math flashcards unique:1. … [Read more...]
UPDATE: Congrats to Devin Berna, the winner of the giveaway! Devin has been contacted and I'll be sending along the set of four prescripts books. Thanks to everyone for entering! Have you seen the Prescripts series of books created by Classical Conversations yet? They are essentially a series of four spiral bound books … [Read more...]
Oh boy, is this a weak area of mine. I've often felt lost in my own county (okay, even the mall), because I am lacking a mental map. My husband on the other hand loves maps and is great at geography. He easily forms mental maps of new areas. Think those characteristics are connected? Yeah, me too. Like my husband, we want our littles to … [Read more...]
"The classical model for math emphasizes memorizing facts for speed and accuracy, and discussing numeracy, operations, and laws for understanding." (p.131, The Core) I can remember reciting addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division tables with my class from simple wall charts in my elementary school growing up. My teachers shared … [Read more...]
When I first started teaching my children to write, I think I truly forgot that "Writing is very hard to do well." I found myself so removed from learning it myself that its challenge was forgotten. While it is hard to do well, The Core provides a simple plan to teach it well. Continuing today with the At Home with The … [Read more...]
I hear from a lot of people that teaching art and music appreciation intimidates them. I try to explain that it really is not a big deal, because if you could see how I personally go about doing that in our home I am positive you would boldly say that it wasn't as difficult as it sounded, and you could do that too! Really! I just … [Read more...]
I'm making some progress in understanding classical education and supplanting the modes of traditional education in my mind. I can tell, because I'm *starting* to be able to converse with others about classical education without looking at my notes. : ) Good, right? I'm also beginning to form ideas of what this will look like for our family over … [Read more...]
Guys, please welcome back guest blogger, Christy Lindsay.I don’t know about you, but I think most of us have our list of “important subjects” that have to get done during the day. We have those boxes that must be checked off and then and only then, if we still have time, we will fit in the “extra stuff” like music or art or maybe some … [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...]