How the Pedagogies like Waldorf and Charlotte Mason Understood the Benefits to Mind, Hearts and Hand in using Handcrafts in Homeschooling I sat on the porch with my friend as we studied the collections of baskets she had made. Oak baskets. Pine Needle baskets. Simple baskets. More complex baskets. “There’s a different between a basket…
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Middle School Geography Block
Scaling up a Elementary Block to Fit a Middle School Geography Curriculum We recently did a block for geography that I used a lot of the books and activities that we did in elementary school. This was a short three-week block. For this post, I’m going to show you how I scaled the entire block…
Homeschool Planning for my Daughter’s Year 4 Journey
We start homeschooling again in not quite two weeks. I finally settled down and finalized with a framework for our year will look like. I say framework, because in homeschooling things change, and it’s important to be adaptable. In the video below I go over the blocks we will be doing and why I scheduled…
My Switch to Living History Books
“Well, this one country, they were mad at this other country, because of this dictator, you know.” This was my son’s response to my question about what he had just read in history. We discuss what he reads after he is finished to help work it into his memory and so I can judge…