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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…
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…
Homeschooling a 3 Year Old
One of the reasons that I moved to working part-time was so I could be home with Jonathan… Josh and I would like to homeschool him because we have some concerns that he’ll get lost in a public school classroom. He’s very smart (ok, I’m biased, but still…) and we don’t want to see him…