homeschooling

Twaddle – – the highly debated, variously defined, fascinating word used to describe material that talks down to a child and/or does not feed their intellectual appetite or imagination.  From Volume 1, Charlotte says, “Even for their earliest reading lessons, it is unnecessary to put twaddle into the hands of children. That children like feeble […]

Paper clutter drives me crazy, which is probably why I eventually settled on a homeschooling philosophy that doesn’t require a lot of paper. We use worksheets and pre-fabricated lesson material as little as possible, but for those few subjects, a spiral binding machine is my best best friend.  I spiral bind all our math worksheets (for […]

We just finished up our second term of the school year!  At the beginning of this year we switched over from using Ambleside Online’s book list and schedule to the history rotation as outlined by the wise and wonderful women of A Delectable Education podcast.  Ambleside Online was a fabulous place for us to start. […]

Our summer has been full of stories. Elliot has been enjoying writing stories and typing them on the computer – I insist that he handwrites them first so we can get plenty of handwriting practice in. For this story, he wanted to “illustrate” it after typing it on the computer. We got out our Legos […]