Education Review: Easy Classical

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As I homeschool my boys, I love using “living books” to bring history, science, and other subjects alive for them. I love the opportunity to delve into a time period or topic and really “live there” for a while. When I see the boys play-acting an event from history weeks after we studied it, I [...]

Working in the Off Time

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I’ve posted before about my, uh, difficulties in scheduling our homeschool days. For the last five years, it seems like every time I “get it all together,” it falls apart again after a few weeks. I commented not long ago that I think five weeks seems to be the maximum length of school I can [...]

Learning Bit by Bit

I am not well-organized, and I often find myself ready for a nap by 11:30am. Some days I find it really difficult to follow through with all of the schooling plans I have for the day. I don’t always succeed, and those days of “slacking” make me sometimes feel like I’m not doing a good [...]

Education Review: The Old Schoolhouse Planner

I’ve often said that The Old Schoolhouse Magazine is my favorite homeschooling magazine and the best homeschooling magazine I’ve ever seen. Even after reading issue after issue for five years now, I still devour each one that arrives in my mailbox. I read it from cover to cover and save every copy to refer to [...]

Workboxes Become Work Pockets for Small Spaces

If you’re a homeschooler, you may have heard of Sue Patrick’s Workboxes – the phrase seems to be all over the place lately. If you’re not a homeschooler, you may not get much out of this post but feel free to read on anyway. After hearing glowing things about Sue Patrick’s Workboxes over the last [...]