I’m so thrilled to be hosting the latest edition of the Charlotte Mason blog carnival! We are beginning our 10th year of homeschooling this fall. The very first book I ever read about homeschooling was The Charlotte Mason Companion by Karen Andreola. I was captivated by Miss Mason’s ideas and knew that I wanted […]
New Year, New Books
August 4, 2009 by ·
It has been harder than usual for me to gear up for school this year. The summer flew by so quickly!! I don’t feel quite ready for Medieval feasts and learning to make mosaics. Ready or not, here we go! It’s school time again. We’re leaving the Ancients behind and moving on to The Middle […]
All work and no play….
June 1, 2009 by ·
We’ve been on our “summer break” for 6 weeks now. How the time flies! I’ve had so much on my to do list that it seems that a year-long summer break wouldn’t be time enough to get it all done. I’ve been working on my children’s year-end evaluations, purchasing books for next year, writing plans […]
If anything is Excellent or Praiseworthy: Books for the Classical History Cycle
May 24, 2009 by ·
I love using the classical cycle of studying history, because I know that my children will encounter each time period in history 3 times throughout their homeschool career. When they study a topic the first time, we can start to build a framework, and they can fill in the details when we hit that subject […]
The Homeschooler’s Library audio series and Books for Girls
May 24, 2009 by ·
I’ve been going over my Home Library Builders post series with a fine-tooth comb this week, in preparation for my talk on Tuesday for the Ultimate Home School Expo. I’ll be speaking on The Homeschooler’s Library, gathering all the information I’ve sought to share in this series into an audio podcast. You can log in […]
Resources for Birding with Children
May 22, 2009 by ·
We enjoy all kinds of nature study, but we have a real love of birds. Two of my children are featured on Cornell Ornithology’s Celebrate Urban Birds website, and you can find out more about some of the things we have done in teaching these avid and accomplished birders in my post How we […]
My New “Baby”
May 19, 2009 by ·
I hope you’ll check out my new “baby”….My Audio School. This site has truly been a labor of love, and the response to it has been overwhelming. Yesterday I wrote a few posts on my yahoo groups and officially “launched” the new blog. The Old Schoolhouse tweeted about it today on Twitter and put it […]
Youth Birding Competition Results
May 7, 2009 by ·
Here is our schedule and what the kids identified at the YBC this year. S means they saw it, H means they heard it and B means both. The boys won their age group again this year, despite moving from Pre-elementary to Elementary. They took first place for number of species identified. They also raised […]
Geocaching Birthday Party
May 7, 2009 by ·
We recently had a birthday party for two of our boys. They wanted to do a geocaching theme. If you missed my post a few weeks ago about Geocaching and Letterboxing, you can read it here. Geocaching (pronounced “Geo-cash-ing”) is a form of treasure hunting which relies on a hand-held GPS unit for finding treasure […]
Apologia Science
April 30, 2009 by ·
When we studied Jeannie Fulbright’s book Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day (Apologia Science Young Explorers) several years ago, my goal was to provide my elementary aged children with an interesting science curriculum. I never could have imagined that the curriculum would light a fire in my children’s hearts about birds, and lead our whole […]
