Home educators are all about learning. We spend a disproportionate amount of our time thinking, planning, collecting materials, and preparing a cerebral meal for our best and most important students – our children. Phonics turns into creative writing, baking soda-driven volcanoes morph into equations on a page, and the years drift by as relentless … Read more
Three years ago when I started homeschooling, one name kept coming up in conversation: Charlotte Mason. She was everywhere. Then I discovered she’d been dead for over 80 years, and I started to wonder what she had to do with twenty-first century homeschooling. So I started digging. I discovered her premise contained twenty basic principles, … Read more
Children should be made early intimate with the trees, too; should pick out half a dozen trees, oak, elm, ash, beech, in their winter nakedness, and take these to be their year-long friends. ~Charlotte Mason Most of us are happy to pack up and head outdoors for a nature walk or other study of nature … Read more
Our Homeschooling Around the World series continues this week with Canada! Homeschooling in Canada has been a wonderful experience, although I haven’t homeschooled anywhere else so I don’t really have a frame of reference. I’m in Ontario which does not require anything but an intent to homeschool form to let the school board know that you will … Read more
Homeschool moms (and dads) are a knowledgeable lot. Today, several members of the Crew share some of their best “How-To” tutorials. From creating a media kit for your blog to great ideas for the kitchen, like how to make those yummy pretzels like at the mall or how to make a meal plan. Have you … Read more