Christian homeschooling integrating Classical and Charlotte Mason principles
“I just love what that wall says about me being an artist. I just love that wall.” – Levi, Age 4 After we moved into our log home in middle Tennessee, we couldn’t settle on a way to professionally (or unprofessionally) decorate our one area of white wall space. But we certainly had a […]
Many moons ago, my husband was the commander of an AWANA club in East Tennessee, and I was a director for Sparks. Before we moved to Texas, we embarked on one last performance at the church we had grown to love as newlyweds and then as new parents of young children. As we enter the […]
Every year during the month of November, we gather some sticks, cut out some “leaves,” and make a Thanksgiving Tree. It is one of our most treasured traditions. And every year, I love to go back through photos to see what the boys were thankful for in previous years… I didn’t realize how much the […]
What is the purpose of a question? To come up with a correct answer? Or should there be something more? What if we used questions to come up with more questions? What if our purpose for asking questions was to extend the curiosity of our students rather than just come up with a correct answer? […]
Over the past few months I’ve fallen off the consistently-listen-to-classical-music wagon. This isn’t because I don’t have a plethora of organized resources already available to me. It’s just because I haven’t made it a priority. But… our children enjoy listening to classical music, so all I really need to do is play some classical music. […]
Every year, we say our pumpkin prayer as we carve a pumpkin in celebration of the wonder of fall. It’s a tradition we all enjoy sharing together… Cut off the top: Lord, open my mind and fill me with Your wisdom and guidance. Scoop out the yuckies: Lord, take out all my fussies and frowns […]
Tin Whistle & Music Theory is probably the most DIFFICULT of Fine Arts subjects for me. Sometimes I even find myself hoping the boys have forgotten that their tin whistles are in their backpacks. I keep telling myself it doesn’t have to be that way. I don’t want it to be that way. I want […]
This is one of the methods our family uses as a memory work aid, especially when we have trouble connecting a prompt to the beginning of the answer to that prompt. This memory work method is: Use a catch phrase. 1st Conjugation Present Tense: When we get a new present, we say, “Oh! Thank you!” […]
Imagine…. a book that honestly addresses the frustrations and doubts we [might] face in our homeschooling journey. Now imagine that book detailing not just some random frustrations and doubts, but also the specific frustrations and doubts of a first-year homeschooling mom: Attending that first curriculum fair (“What in the world am I doing here?”) Dealing […]
