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Educational Philosophy, Mother's Education
Newbie Tuesday: The Second Full Volume

It’s ready … and it’s amazing! Hayley has been hard at work beautifying Newbie Tuesday into something you will not only love reading, but looking at. In my opinion, it’s even better than last year, and last year was pretty great! For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, Newbie Tuesday is a (fantastic ahem) monthly newsletter I put out for the past couple years. Each issue had a specific topic — some aspect of Charlotte Mason’s philosophy — Continue Reading…
January 17, 2017
Home Education
Geography, Google, and You: a Primer on Making Blank Maps

When I was a child, I was given a map of the world to hang in my bedroom. It was a rather large map, showing all the countries in different colors, along with their capitols and other major cities marked. I’m not sure what my parents hoped would come of this gift, but I’m sure they did not imagine its ultimate application. I ended up hanging it at the back of my closet. Now this might seem a strange place Continue Reading…
July 27, 2016
Books & Reading, Home Education
Seven Quick Takes on Geography, Circle Time, THM, and More!

:: 1 :: Recently, I realized that my fourth grader is weak on geography. It’s not a big deal, at her age, but she’s weaker than I’d like her to be, and she’s also really resistant. I was trying to think of a simple way to get her more familiar with geography without causing a battle, so what I started doing was opening our history readings by using a globe. We’re using George Washington’s World for our history spine, and Continue Reading…
March 20, 2015
Best of Afterthoughts, Educational Philosophy, Home Education
How Geography is History’s Secret Weapon

There is no such thing as world history.There are many separate histories of nations and peoples,and they overlap in different ways, places, and times. — Jacques Barzun, Begin Here As a child I grew up believing geography to be painfully boring and also pointless. To me, maps told a person how to get from Point A to Point B. That was it. Maps didn’t share important information about a place (not that I really cared about places). I remember one Continue Reading…
February 18, 2015