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Home Education
School Planning 2014: Circle Time 2014-2015 Term 1

[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s is our wont, we did not do everything we set out to do last year. I really don’t let this get to me. I over-plan on purpose. Allow me to explain. If I under-plan, and we finish everything before a term is up, that’s it. We’ll probably read aloud, of course, and we might review what we’ve learned, but that’s all. I won’t add anything to my plans mid-term because I just don’t work that way. But. If I plan Continue Reading…
August 9, 2014
Educational Philosophy, Home Education
What Geography Looks Like

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]oday we return to the What Ambleside Looks Like series. If you missed it, we already discussed picture study, composer study, and hymns {not in that order}. Incidentally, the order of this series is entirely arbitrary. I’m just interested in reviewing the basics. Geography: What’s the Point? So first, let’s ask ourselves what the point of geography is in the context of a Charlotte Mason-style classroom. In her first volume, Charlotte tells us: [T]he peculiar value of geography lies in its Continue Reading…
August 23, 2011
Home Education
Proposed Living Geography for California

My oldest is in Year Four of AmblesideOnline this year, and I’ve decided to add in California geography this year. Up until now, I haven’t done much on our state because we study our history chronologically, for the most part, and there wasn’t a whole lot going on here until the 1700s. However, comma. Once we get to the 1800s, there are numerous options for state history, and I want to cover a number of them. I don’t remember any of Continue Reading…
August 2, 2011
Educational Philosophy
Lessons from Charlotte: What to Cover {Part II}

[dropcap]Y[/dropcap]esterday, we covered reading {learning to read}, recitation, reading {perfecting reading in older children}, narration, writing, transcription, spelling and dictation, and composition, and I think {hope, and pray} they all appeared online as they had to me before publishing. Today, we will cover the rest: Bible, arithmetic, natural philosophy, geography, history, grammar, French, and pictorial art. Bible Lessons Mason begins her section by dismissing the idea that children are not interested in the Bible unless it is watered down Continue Reading…
June 24, 2010