5 Essential Pieces of Our Homeschool Day
I love to make lists. I even have lists of the lists I have made and want to make. So, why not share all (well, some) of those lists during
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Habits: The Secret for Smooth and Easy Days?
Who doesn’t want a life that is smooth and easy? Years ago, when I had only quite small children and I had immersed myself in books on educational theory,
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Morning Time As Lectio Divina
If classical education is the art of becoming free, then we need to build our habits of attention. The British-born turn-of-the-century American journalist, Sydney Harris, once posited: The primary purpose
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5 Easy Steps to Teach Shakespeare to Kids
Are you intimidated by the thought of how to teach Shakespeare to your kids? The language is archaic and difficult. The plots are confusing. Most of us assume that Shakespeare
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Homeschool Mama, You're Not a Teacher
Are you afraid of homeschooling because you know you’re not as smart or prepared as the teacher-down-the-road? We homeschooling moms can be an easy marketing target. Day schools promise
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On Using Homeschool Curriculum
In what ways have you let your materials be the driver in your homeschool instead of yourself? What ways have you tweaked your curriculum to make them work for you
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Parenting Tactics for Thinkers
I am more and more of the opinion that learning about personality types is a great way to learn to be a better parent and teacher. Here’s a section
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On Driving Your Curriculum
As a homeschool grad myself, my first “real” classroom experience was college. This was interesting, because it meant I was old enough to be aware of what was going on
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Dread the end of summer?
It’s the Monday of a new month. A fresh week in a fresh month! For many of us, August is a month of either beginning school or getting ready
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Imitation as Learning Style
When, because of our wide or internet-based reading, the concept of classical education grows into this huge, contradictory tangle that is scary and confusing, we need to zoom out and
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Virtue as the Goal of Education
Although the idea of classical homeschooling can be intimidating and appear unreachable, it is far more down-to-earth than we might think. This task is not too lofty for us, homeschooling
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Homeschool Hits & Misses
A record of our 2013-2014 school year. It is tempting, this time of year, to skip right to discussing next year’s plans and leave this year we are wrapping
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