Planned Spontaneity is a free pdf eBook that will help you to schedule those fun things that always seem to fall through the cracks. It can also help you beat the boredom or break out of that mid year slump. We all have times when our homeschools fall into ruts, when the daily grind starts …
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Thursday’s Thoughts – Variety Is the Spice of (School) Life
I was rereading some of my Charlotte Mason resources the other day and was reminded of something simple yet profound in Miss Mason’s own class schedules. We often expound upon the varied nature of the lessons a child is offered in a Charlotte Mason style education. I had somehow overlooked the fact that her class …
Friday Freebies – CLE’s Scope and Sequences
Christian Light Education, the workbook-textbook based Mennonite curriculum company, offers two scope and sequences free. They are really a record of what CLE’s curriculum products cover for each grade, but if you are completely stumped for what to do next year, or what to teach when, they are certainly a good resource to use. One …
Tuesday’s Too Good To Miss – Fall Housecleaning Checklist
I have a confession – I am a checklist dependent kinda gal. I’m also a disorganized kinda gal. And my dependence on checklists is the only way I can keep myself even halfway organized. So I love love LOVE free checklists for stuff I either A.) am going to do, B.) have to do, or …
Thursday’s Thoughts – Charlotte Mason Record Keeping
We know that Charlotte’s students were encouraged to keep notebooks. The most famous of these is the Book of Centuries and nature journal, but Charlotte also had her students keeping narration books – recording their thoughts on things read to and by them. She had them making quote books – collecting lines from poetry, speeches, …
