Seeking Truth, Goodness, and Beauty
I am going to attempt a post, even though my monitor is dying. To shorten a long story, I have black lines flashing horizontally across the screen. Which is making it hard to focus on individual words and check my…
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“Education is lighting a fire, not filling a bucket.” When a homeschool mom has a struggling reader, she is often advised to let content subjects take a back seat while she works on the basics. As one of those moms,…
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In the book Home Education, Charlotte has some wonderful advice for nature study: Calendars.––It is a capital plan for the children to keep a calendar––the first oak-leaf, the first tadpole, the first cowslip, the first catkin, the first ripe blackberries,…
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Charlotte Mason used a book called A New Handwriting for Teachers, by M. M. Bridges. It contains a few pages of instructions, and then “ten stiff, thick pages” for the children to copy from. Since I am trying to remove workbooks/printouts…
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My 6 yo (Andrew) and I had our second reading from Nesbit’s book: Shakespeare’s Stories for Young Readers today. I used a lovely idea I’ve read about on a few blogs / mailing lists: making a cheat sheet for the…
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