One of the most frequent questions I get is regarding how and when to start homeschooling a young child. Everyone is a little apprehensive the… Read More »Tips and Resources for Homeschooling Kindergarten and Young Children
This year in our homeschool we will be studying the period of Christendom–the Middle Ages beginning with Constantine and the Edict of Milan in AD… Read More »Middle Ages Homeschool Living History and Literature with Two FREE Downloads
In honor of national poetry month, here is a list of my favorite poetry anthologies to use with children. A Child’s Garden of Verses by… Read More »Beautiful Poetry Anthologies for Children
June was baby month around here (Christopher arrived on June 20th). In addition to getting everything ready for his arrival and resting up for the… Read More »A Homeschool Mom Reads: June and July 2016
So, I started this series awhile ago, and it’s not that I’m not enthusiastic about the topic, but life got in the way…namely in the form of… Read More »The Four Approaches to Classical Christian Education, Part 4: The Bluedorn Interpretation of Trivium-As-Stages
For the first several years that I homeschooled, I would spend the spring and summer searching for curriculum sales on the things I wanted for… Read More »My Curriculum Choices for 2016-2017: Morning Time, 3rd Grade & 5th Grade
So, I feel like I’ve been in a huge reading (and blogging) slump. I’m blaming it on the pregnancy. When I would normally be reading… Read More »A Homeschool Mom Reads: January-April (2016)
Every semester it seems I’m able to simplify even more as I read and learn and find new resources. This makes me happy. Our homeschool… Read More »Our Classical Homeschool 2nd Semester: Curricula Choices and Weekly Checksheets
First of all, if you follow this series, you know I didn’t post the books I read in October through December. The truth is, I… Read More »A Homeschool Mom Reads: My Book List for 2016
The word “classical” gets thrown around a lot, from descriptions of classical music to classical education to classical culture. But what does it really mean?… Read More »What does “classical” mean?
In this series, I am discussing the four different ways that evangelicals are doing classical Christian education (CCE) in 2015. In my first post, I… Read More »The Four Approaches to Classical Christian Education, Part 3: The Trivium-as-Stages Approach
These are some recent reader questions that reflect questions I get fairly often regarding history curriculum and history dating of ancient times from a young… Read More »Reader Questions Answered: Young Earth History Curriculum and Dates
As I plan for our upcoming school year, what am I buying? I still love much/most of what we’ve been using. We had a few… Read More »My Curriculum Recommendations: 2nd and 4th Grade
I’m guessing that a lot of homeschool parents, like me, encountered classical Christian education (CCE) through either Doug Wilson’s excellent book Recovering the Lost Tools… Read More »Classical Christian Education: Four Distinct Approaches, part 1