Our Lives in His Fence
We’re in month two of my unschooling experiment (which is nicely coinciding with summertime), and I’m feeling quite comfortable and confident with things. James has found a new love of chapter books, Nick actually expressed interest in learning higher math, and everyone is reading & exploring plenty. There’s just been one subject that has been [...]
I’m happy to report that nine-year-old James has discovered the joy of chapter books! He picked up a Hank the Cowdog book a few days ago, opened to a random page, and began to read. I guess the story grabbed his imagination because he quickly went back to the first page to start reading from the [...]
In her College Bound Reading List, Lee Binz (The Home Scholar) mentioned that some colleges have said that homeschoolers seem to have an over-emphasis on classic literature to the neglect of modern or contemporary works. With that in mind, I’ve put together this reading list of excellent modern literature that I think college bound teens [...]
A friend asked what I use for history, and I ended up writing so much that I decided to post it here. How I Teach History in our Homeschool I’m really relaxed in my homeschooling – I hate to have someone else tell me when to teach different topics, especially when it comes to history! [...]
I came across a list of 100+ read-alouds for families recently, which inspired me to add some more literature reading to our days. We tend to go through stages where we’re reading together more and then stages where we’re reading less. This summer, we haven’t read much together at all … a few stories from [...]
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