Good Days & Bad
This summer I read John Owen’s Mortification of Sin. I enjoyed the delve into older, denser English. There were several places where at first I was a little taken
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Choose what is good.
Virtue grows through repeated action, repentance, and perseverance, not through maintaining an image of having everything together.
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The Simple Life.
The principle of multum non multa means choosing depth over distraction. Don't manage dozens of tasks; focus your energy on what matters most.
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Homeschooling is never dull
Homeschooling is never dull. Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly. […] Solemnity flows out of men naturally; but laughter is a leap. It is easy to be heavy:
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Teaching Beginning Writing, freeform
This year I start teaching writing again. I have taught several writing classes over a scattered 5 years from 2001-2010. I started off using the old IEW teacher training materials
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Teach Your Children to Resolve Conflict: The Young Peacemaker
Timing is a funny thing. When I made our Elementary Lesson plans and our Circle Time plans, I considered, but decided against, using The Young Peacemaker. I heard about it
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Build responsibility and accountability by adding a weekly meeting with your homeschool student
It is much easier, really, to check off a list of subjects and make sure the content bases are covered than to think about the ultimate goals and attempt to
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Classically Charlotte: The nature of children
Previously, in this series: Charlotte Mason, classical educator Principle #1: Children are born persons Charlotte Mason’s second principle of education is perhaps stated poorly. Because of this statement, many
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Classically Charlotte: Children are born persons
So Brandy of Afterthoughts is leading a study of Charlotte Mason’s 20 Principles of Education at the Ambleside Online forum, and even though I don’t use Ambleside, I
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Miss Charlotte Mason, classical educator
This post was first published in 2013; find more, related articles at the end of this post. Given the definition of classical education we developed previously – that classical education is
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What does classical education mean?
A label is a tricky thing. Just when you decide to take on an adjective as an identity, you find people including shades of meaning that you don’t personally
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Low-Key Science, without lesson plans
At the time of this writing, I have a 9yo, 7yo, 4yo, & 2yo. As with history, I believe science in the elementary years should be geared toward awareness and
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