Welcome to the first week of our Educating the Wholehearted Child discussion group! This week, we’re reading the Preface and the Introduction. Feel free to stop now, go read those sections, and then come back. Or you can read my summary and thoughts before you read the book. Either way, I hope you’ll participate in…
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Homeschool Mother’s Journal – June 24
In our homeschool this week we… finished a couple more books from our Sonlight P 4/5 curriculum including The Milly-Molly-Mandy Story Book, A Treasury of Mother Goose, New Toes for Tia, and The Lion Storyteller Bedtime Book. Jonathan wanted me to read and read and read some more this week. made a wordless book that tells…
Homeschool Mother’s Journal – June 17
I stumbled upon this idea and link up a few weeks ago. What a great way to remember and document some of my favorite things from the week, what we did in our homeschool, and even struggles or prayer requests! I’m planning to post on Fridays or Saturdays using The Homeschool Chick’s writing prompt. Here…
A Year in Review…
We are not quite finished with our first year, but I’m currently preparing for next year and evaluating our first year of homeschooling. What worked? An eclectic, Charlotte-Mason leaning homeschooling style. I love everything I’ve read about the Charlotte Mason method but I incorporate bits and pieces of other methods that work well for us. Sonlight….
Why Do We Homeschool?
This week, I read several posts that made me think again about why we homeschool: Why I Couldn’t Sacrifice My Child To The Public Schools 11 Reasons Why We Homeschool Why we chose to homeschool… Jonathan is almost finished with his first year of homeschooling and we’re preparing to start Kindergarten in the fall….