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Holiday Grand Plan Week One.
The Official Holiday Grand Plan starts on August 31. In order to accommodate the Advent season I am starting earlier, this week, and I hope to have everything in order and ready for a calm and...
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One good thing about homeschooling
Christopher running out the back door to see the helicopter he hears flying overhead.
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The trouble with dictionaries
My son, Christopher, is struggling through his vocabulary this afternoon. “Flying buttresses” he chirps, “what is a flying buttress? Look at this, ‘Notre Dame Cathedral’. That’s cool!”. It isn’t...
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Building a Culture
My life seems like a complicated musical composition sometimes. Themes rise and fall then are repeated again and again with subtle variations. One of the themes that keeps repeating is that of...
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Racism and Homeschooling
Over at Bendng the Twigs I found a pair of posts refuting the idea that a common motivation for homeschooling is racism. Emperor Of China's Gardens - William Alexander Usually I miss the hotly...
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Homeschooling – Planning for next year – Subjects
Summer is just beginning and so has the work of planning next year’s studies for the children. It isn’t really work – though it can be rather time consuming – it is fun. There is something really...
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Homeschooling – Planning for next year – Books
Yesterday I blogged about the beginning of our homeschool plans for next year. Today I am going into more detail starting with the books and texts we are selecting. Ludovico Marchetti - A Good Book...
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Homeschooling – Planning for next year – Reading Lists
Yesterday I listed out the texts that we are using for next year with the promise that I would return to our book lists in a future post. Today’s post is all about why we use “real” books, how we...
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Homeschoolers live on tarps in parking lots….
who knew? If you haven’t had a chance to read it yet you might want to mosey on over to the University of Maryland’s Philosophy & Public Policy Quarterly, there you will be treated to a first class...
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Homeschool Planning: Goals for next year and beyond
The White Symphony: Three Girls ~ Whistler This post is the third post of of our homeschool planning series you can read the first here. One of focus points of our parent and child interview is the...
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