I was just reviewing my previous post where I summarized what we’d accomplished in our first 6 weeks of a Charlotte Mason approach. That was back in March. It was fascinating to look back at what we’ve changed, what we’ve maintained, where we’ve stalled and where we’ve progressed.
One big change is that I stopped thinking [...]
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Nov
07
Autumn Session Update
by heather
Tags: ALEKS, Ancient History, charlotte mason, currclick, Ecoutez Parlez, Ellen J McHenry, French, history, History Odyssey, Hobbit, Homeschooling, homeschoolskedtrack, Intellego, l'art de lire, Life of Fred, literature, Lord of the Rings, math, Math Mammoth, Mathletics, Mesopotamia, Nallenart, NOEO, RightStart, scheduling, science, subjects, The Elements, Tolkien, Waldorf, whales, ziggurat
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Sep
09
Not Back to School Today!
by heather
Today was back-to-school day for kids across our province. While most every other family with school-aged children was getting up early, packing new bookbags, rushing over breakfast, running out the door to catch the bus… while moms were missing their babies (whether off for the first time or the twelfth) within a few hours of [...]
Tags: back to school, biology, exercise, French, grammar, handwriting, home ec, Homeschooling, household, math, Music, poetry, preschool, science, summer, whales
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Mar
19
Busy, Busy Day Part I: School Time
by heather
Today was just the kind of day where lots of little things happened, one after the other. So much so that I can’t bear to put it all in one post, so today’s post is a multi-parter!
Flipper was going to a friend’s house at lunchtime today, so he did most of his schoolwork this morning. [...]
Tags: charlotte mason, daily grams, homeschool, hyperkinetic, math, science
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Dec
16
Carnival of Homeschooling #155
by heather
Carnival of Homeschooling #155 is up at SmallWorld, featuring gorgeous photos of the mountains and inspirational quotes. And, of course, tons of fantastic articles from homeschooling bloggers! My article Learning Math Lessons the Hard Way is featured. Some of my favourites are Terrible Science Experiments, The Resistant Child, and Politicians Can Teach [...]
Tags: carnival, experiments, Homeschooling, math, mountains, politicians, resistant, science
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Dec
08
Our Homeschool Curriculum
by heather
We’re not school-at-home. We’re not radical unschoolers. We’re pretty eclectic. I give Flipper quite a bit of freedom in choosing what sorts of things he wants to do, but I also insist on a few things myself. I work very hard, however, at finding materials that will be interesting and even [...]
Tags: Aesop, agnosticism, Canadian Government, Christian, curriculum, eclectic homeschooling, French, geometry, grammar, Greece, guitar, handwriting, history, homeschool, logic, martial arts, math, piano, poetry, reading, religion, Rome, science, spelling, unschooling, virtues, vocabulary, writing
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