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
{This week’s Spotlight on the Crew article is brought to you from Wendy, at Life at Rossmont.} Even the birds in the sky know the right times to do things. The storks, doves, swifts, and thrushes know when it is time to migrate. But my people don’t know what the Lord wants … Read more
This article is in collaboration with Creek Edge Press. Creek Edge Press is a company that provides a simple tool for homeschoolers to facilitate more ‘Discovery based, Research Oriented and Independent‘ learning. The tool is a simple set of Task Cards with various tasks for the students to complete using Encyclopedias, other Reference Books, Dictionaries, … Read more