A Homeschool Mom Reads: August and September
August: August was back to school month for us as well as me getting ready to speak at a conference, so, while I didn’t get… Read More »A Homeschool Mom Reads: August and September
August: August was back to school month for us as well as me getting ready to speak at a conference, so, while I didn’t get… Read More »A Homeschool Mom Reads: August and September
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
After the fun beach and car reading of June, I was ready for some nourishing fare this month, and that was just what I got.… Read More »A Homeschool Mom Reads: July
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
Here’s what I read in May and June. (January through April can be found here.) May: The Penderwicks in Spring by Jeanne Birdsall The fourth… Read More »A Homeschool Mom Reads: May and June
At long last, I finished my master’s degree in Christian education in December. Much as I’m thrilled to be done, I loved the external pressure… Read More »A Homeschool Mom Reads: January through April
I recently wrote a post introducing a new series about the four distinct ways that evangelicals are doing classical Christian education in 2015–more than 30… Read More »Four Approaches to Classical Christian Education, Part 2: Towards a Definition
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
Last spring I did a review of Classical Conversations history. I mentioned that I’d provide a list of the Classical Conversations history timeline events and… Read More »List of Classical Conversations and Veritas Timeline Cards
I keep getting emails requesting our timeline song, which I promised awhile back that I would post. Here it is at long last! I explained… Read More »The Much-Requested Timeline Song
Today I’m here with my curriculum recommendations for first, second, and third grade. I realize that I haven’t done curriculum recommendations for kindergarten yet, and… Read More »1st, 2nd, and 3rd Grade Curriculum Recommendations and Best Prices
Today I’m back with another history curriculum review. So far we’ve looked at Veritas Press History, Story of the World, and Mystery of History. In… Read More »History Review: Classical Conversations
How can you get your child to love history? Or, better stated, how can you teach your child to love history? We, as parents, are responsible for… Read More »How can you teach your child to love history?