Homeschooling
« Previous EntriesMy Classical First Grader
I’m excited for this new school year, which will be starting as soon as we settle into life with our newborn… Whenever the baby decides he or she wants to enter the world. I’m due tomorrow, so it’s just a waiting game right now. Although we school year-round, 4 days a week, [...]
My Classical Kindergartner
I am starting my 5 year old son in Kindergarten this year at home. We love the classical approach, so here is how I have outlined our year with our goals.
Our kindergarten ‘time’ lasts about 30 minutes 4 days a week. This doesn’t count the online speech therapy program my son is [...]
My Classical Preschooler
It sounds a big contradictory, as classical education is quite formal and preschool is not. I begin my youngsters with a pretty informal preschool education - I don’t even use an actual curriculum for most of it unless they show readiness. But we have a lot of activities focusing on reading and math. [...]
Our school room
I have to say… My husband is the greatest. He gave up his mancave so I could turn his ’space’ into our school room. The ‘cave had only been used a handful of times in the past year or so and I have to admit to daydreaming about how nice it would be [...]
Is homeschooling expensive?
I’ve had a few people mention they could never homeschool because they couldn’t afford it. I’ve heard this comment quite often on homeschooling forums, too. It seems as though homeschooling is thought of an ‘elite’ thing to do because it’s ’so expensive.’ It doesn’t have to be, at all. I [...]
Where to begin…?
While I had big ambitions to post regularly, it’s quite obvious that isn’t happening! That ‘free time’ seems to be hiding somewhere. I dont’ even know where to pick up from where I left off, so much has happened!
We found a larger van (we’re pregnant with #5, and with our children all so [...]
Math for a k/1st grader
For my 5 year old, she’s doing first grade level math. I was creating my own math schedule for her and when it came to a few issues I had with what to teach when and how, I decided to scope out an actual math curriculum for her to put my mind at ease. [...]
A new idea for the morning, and a homeschool toolbar
first, I wanted to share with you a great new find I found tonight when I was supposed to be working on my monthly newsletter. . A toolbar for the internet, geared for homeschoolers. I installed it, and I love it. It comes preloaded with blogs, forums, websites that you can check [...]
Board Games & Card Games for Education
Recently our educational preference took a turn for the classical, but more on that later. I’ve been homeschooling for the past year and a half, you think I’d have all of this together by now, right? But honestly the past year and a half have been pretty unstructured and fun as I brought [...]
Learning about Creation
I recently began a fun study of creation that will end with a trip to the Creation Museum in KY once we’re all done. Ideally the trip will conclude our creation study and be a springboard for our next few lessons considering how many neat exhibit are there.
With each day the Lord [...]
