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I’m still working on gathering books for Jonathan’s homeschooling for next year. I found a few used books very cheap recently through a homeschool classifieds group online, so I have updated the list. Take a look here on our Amazon wish list for the books we still need. We have a new bedtime routine… Each…
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Video: Jonathan Reading
I took this video while Jonathan was reading a couple nights ago. It is fairly long. I pieced together multiple clips that I took using my phone. You’ll see and hear how he sounds out words, can get frustrated at times, and he’s a wiggly little boy 🙂 The book is a Pathway Reader, which…
Pre-K Day 1
Here is what our first day looked like…. Spell to Write & Read Word List A – Jonathan sounded out the words that I said aloud for him. He wrote the first two on his whiteboard. Then he told me which letters to write for the rest of the ten words. Then he traced the…
The End of an Era
Ok, maybe my post title is a bit dramatic… But this is a major change for our family and especially me personally… Josh and I have been contemplating our next steps concerning my “career” for a while now. Expecting a second baby will do that to you. Back in the spring, we decided that I…
Charlotte Mason Method: The Basics
Charlotte Mason was a teacher in England in the late 1800’s / early 1900’s. I won’t bore you with details from her life at this point. You can read more by clicking on her name. One thing that I feel is pertinent to point out is that she saw children as people. This is almost…
How we chose a homeschooling method
Our adventure to determine what kind of homeschooling best fits our family started with looking at Arborbrook Christian Academy. If we were to send Jonathan to school, we believe that this is the best option in our area right now. But, private school is not in the budget… and not exactly what we feel is…
Me? Homeschool? Yeah, right…
As I look back, I think that God has had me on a journey to bring me to homeschooling for quite a long time… When I was in elementary and junior high, my answer to the what do I want to be when I grow up question was always “teacher”. Somewhere along the way, I…
Homeschool Philosophies
One of the first steps in homeschooling is to determine what kind of philosophy or method of homeschooling best fits your family and your children. We have found that there are seven main categories, with of course some overlap, different names, and subsets. Here’s a very, very brief overview of each and this is not…
Ticonderoga Pencils
Am I late to the game? I heard about Ticonderoga pencils in the last month or so through the Sonlight forums (this is the base curriculum that I’ve been using for Jonathan; the forums are a message board area for those using the Sonlight curriculum). I’m reading all these posts from moms raving about…
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