Summer is here! What is the most common question homeschoolers ask each other at this time of year?: “Are you done for the year?” The answers vary from “just one more week” to “no, we will keep going through the summer”. Why is this question so popular? Because, most of us are tired by the time…
Narration… The leitmotif of a Charlotte Mason education. What is narration and how do you do it? Narration is the hinge on which the learning is acquired. It is the key to making what is studied “my own”. Narration can seem daunting and a chore but truly it is the best learning tool in my…
Family style learning enables us to streamline our learning experiences without diluting them. It has opened my eyes to other “school habits” that many homeschoolers fall prey to and that inhibit a profound learning experience. Just like school segregates children by age, it also segregates learning by subjects. As much as I understand the practical…
Home education should be a family affair, right? I mean you are at home, you are all together, so why should education be segregated? I am a huge proponent of a family learning as a family. By that I mean that it is so much nicer when we are all learning the same thing at…
Education is a life. That life is sustained on ideas. Ideas are of spiritual origin, and God has made us so that we get them chiefly as we convey them to one another, whether by word of mouth, written page, Scripture word, musical symphony; but we must sustain a child’s inner life with ideas as…
You already know that I love books, especially picture books, but I also love baskets. Why? Because they are the perfect receptacle for picture books! They make it easy to keep track of books, you can arrange books by themes and everything can be nicely organized. I do love to organize too, lol! So today…
The Winter Blues, the February Blues, cabin fever… It doesn’t matter their name, it’s all too real to the homeschooling mom. You have hit the doldrum, your sails are hanging limp and there is no wind anywhere in sight to get you going again. And it’s not just you, your little, and big, cherubs feel…
Picture study: just one more thing to do? Or a multi layered treasure to be enjoyed? I’ll go with number 2! Picture study is a treasure trove of beauty, opportunity to learn and grow as well as a very fun activity. Charlotte Mason’s picture study Charlotte Mason, the famous English educator, is at the heart…
Another engaging endeavor for the whole family is lapbooks. When we occasionally get into a slump with Notebooking, we switch gear and start creating all together through lapbooking. We discovered lapbooking a long, long time ago, it was probably our first method of Notebooking now that I think about it. I enjoy it because it…
What is the engineering process and why should my children know about it? There is a short answer to that and a long one. Today is Raye Montague’s birthday! Happy birthday Raye! Raye Montague was a mathematician and an engineer. She was the first person to ever design a Navy ship via a computer. She…
