Reading aloud when children are young is imperative. Many treat the older years as optional. I’m so glad no one convinced me to stop! It is so much fun now that my children are older. Reading aloud to them doubles as reading for myself — so many of these books are on my personal list and I can shift titles to the read aloud stack to get them done. I’d much rather share books with people I love than read Continue Reading...
Reading aloud when children are young is imperative. Many treat the older years as optional. I’m so glad no one convinced me to stop! It is so much fun now that my children are older. Reading aloud to them doubles as reading for myself — so many of these books are on my personal list and I can shift titles to the read aloud stack to get them done. I’d much rather share books with people I love than read Continue Reading...
Reading aloud when children are young is imperative. Many treat the older years as optional. I’m so glad no one convinced me to stop! It is so much fun now that my children are older. Reading aloud to them doubles as reading for myself — so many of these books are on my personal list and I can shift titles to the read aloud stack to get them done. I’d much rather share books with people I love than read Continue Reading...
Reading aloud when children are young is imperative. Many treat the older years as optional. I’m so glad no one convinced me to stop! It is so much fun now that my children are older. Reading aloud to them doubles as reading for myself — so many of these books are on my personal list and I can shift titles to the read aloud stack to get them done. I’d much rather share books with people I love than read Continue Reading...
Swedish Drill Revisited is a complete open-and-go curriculum that will assist you in instructing your children two complete Swedish Drill routines. In addition, it will equip you with the information you need to develop new routines once your children have mastered those included in the manual. This product is entirely self-contained and has everything you need to make Swedish Drill happen consistently in your homeschool or co-op. Inside Swedish Drill Revisited you will find: Disclaimer: The majority of the content in this manual Continue Reading...
Reading aloud when children are young is imperative. Many treat the older years as optional. I’m so glad no one convinced me to stop! It is so much fun now that my children are older. Reading aloud to them doubles as reading for myself — so many of these books are on my personal list and I can shift titles to the read aloud stack to get them done. I’d much rather share books with people I love than read Continue Reading...
Unless the Lord builds the house,those who build it labor in vain.— Psalm 127:1 I don’t know about you, but I am not a grand composer orchestrating my homeschool curriculum. I use AmblesideOnline, which means I mainly schedule a week using assignments planned by Other People. Occasionally I tinker with it. Sometimes this is because a child has already read a book. Other times, I’m combining students. But whatever I do to alter it, it’s not really my creation. I Continue Reading...
Reading aloud when children are young is imperative. Many treat the older years as optional. I’m so glad no one convinced me to stop! It is so much fun now that my children are older. Reading aloud to them doubles as reading for myself — so many of these books are on my personal list and I can shift titles to the read aloud stack to get them done. I’d much rather share books with people I love than read Continue Reading...
Tired of nagging your children to get them to finish their school work? Today, Kathy Livingston shares how she encourages her children to self-pace.
If your child is studying Latin, you need to know some basics so that you can answer his questions along the way. Lesson 1 explains the five basic cases.
In our last lesson, we discussed the genitive case. We learned that there is a preposition inside the genitive case. It isn’t completely evident, but it’s implied, and it comes out during translation into English. The dative case also has this going on! Though Latin has a lot of prepositions, some of the ones we use most often in English are right there inside the cases. The Flexible Indirect Object In English, we have two ways of denoting that something Continue Reading...
[dropcap]I[/dropcap] have really struggled with finding a Book of Centuries that works for us. For a year I searched and wondered. I even purchased the download from Simply Charlotte Mason. Nothing was working. Either they were too expensive, too difficult to bind, too…something. I was looking for something that I had imagined in my mind, and I couldn’t find it anywhere. If you are starting to think this is all about me, I suppose there is a chance this is Continue Reading...
It’s that time again! Every year, I develop two summer reading lists. This year, we’re doing the MEC list first. Of the two lists, this one is meant for the more serious reader. I often caution moms who have newborns or are otherwise sleep-deprived. The next list — the Mother Culture list — is much more appropriate for that stage of life. But for those of you ready for a challenge, allow me to introduce (or re-introduce) you to a Continue Reading...
In my final post on principles of antifragility for motherhood, I said that learning to bear small losses prepares us for bearing big losses and that one place this can be practiced is through reading. Most of us don’t live devastating lives, I said. But literature allows us to enter in to the devastation of others. While this isn’t its primary purpose, it’s true that literature can help build so much of what we talked about regarding robustness, resiliency, and Continue Reading...
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This is the third in our series of guest posts for Math Week on Afterthoughts. I broke Willa’s original post up into two parts, one focusing on the more philosophical and historical aspects of teaching Euclid, the other on more practical matters. You may want to read the preceding posts first. Here is the series Table of Contents: Series Introduction Teaching Maths the CM Way {by Jeanne} Five Strategies for Teaching Mathphobics {by Tammy Glaser} Teaching Euclid in the Homeschool, Continue Reading...
I ‘ve been around the Charlotte Mason block a time or two, and while there are mix-ups at times about nature study or mathematics or any number of subjects, the number one point of confusion is what in the world is masterly inactivity. Some will say in regard to a child, “He needs his masterly inactivity time.” Occasionally, I hear something similar about Mom: “I was doing my masterly inactivity” (meaning having free time). Let me clear up the main Continue Reading...
A brief history of Swedish drill and physical education, as well as a look at how Charlotte Mason made this type of drill a priority in her school day.
Turns out Christians can read mythology after all.
In my final post on principles of antifragility for motherhood, I said that learning to bear small losses prepares us for bearing big losses and that one place this can be practiced is through reading. Most of us don’t live devastating lives, I said. But literature allows us to enter in to the devastation of others. While this isn’t its primary purpose, it’s true that literature can help build so much of what we talked about regarding robustness, resiliency, and Continue Reading...
Possibly the best summer reading list on the internet!
It’s that time again! Every year, I develop two summer reading lists. This year, we’re doing the MEC list first. Of the two lists, this one is meant for the more serious reader. I often caution moms who have newborns or are otherwise sleep-deprived. The next list — the Mother Culture list — is much more appropriate for that stage of life. But for those of you ready for a challenge, allow me to introduce (or re-introduce) you to a Continue Reading...
This post is the first of our series of guest posts for Math Week here on Afterthoughts. You may want to read the preceding post first. Here is the series Table of Contents: Series Introduction Teaching Maths the CM Way {by Jeanne}
This week, my church asked me to put together an emergency curriculum and sample schedule for those in our congregation who are unexpectedly homeschooling during this Coronavirus crisis. I used a lot of AmblesideOnline (including the amazing HELP — Helping Hand Emergency Learning Plan) to come up with something that I thought was simple, easy to understand, inexpensive (practically free), and a good fit for the people I love. Parents needed to know what to do on Wednesday, when the Continue Reading...
I don’t write about our homeschooling very often. Much of this stems from the fact that we are, in the scheme of things, quite new at this. I love what we are doing, but I think I am in the stage of life where I have a lot more to learn than I have advice to dispense. However, when something is really working for me, I like to make it known in hopes that it might help someone else. Almost Continue Reading...
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These initial terminology lessons (cases, declining, etc.) may seem simple enough. But, as someone who has been trying to teach herself Latin for a number of years, I can say that they trip people up. At least, they tripped me up. It was all Greek to me, you know? Only it was Latin, which was even more confusing. Ahem. So today we’re going to talk about the word declining. Sometimes, in Latin textbooks, you’ll be given the assignment to “decline the Latin words Continue Reading...
I couldn’t believe my low-carb diet results after following a food plan for 30 days. Check out my before and after photos.
This post is the first of our series of guest posts for Math Week here on Afterthoughts. You may want to read the preceding post first. Here is the series Table of Contents: Series Introduction Teaching Maths the CM Way {by Jeanne}
In Which I Write You a Letter on Day Twelve of Quarantine Hello, friend — It feels simultaneously redundant, obvious, and deeply necessary to begin this note by saying: what strange times we’re living in. I have A Lot of Thoughts. I’ll spare you most of them, but there is one thing on my mind to tell you about. A few days ago, I was scanning headlines when I saw an article about pregnancy during coronavirus. I am pregnant, as Continue Reading...
If your child is studying Latin, you need to know some basics so that you can answer his questions along the way. Lesson 1 explains the five basic cases.
I know I said that next we’d talk about declensions, but it came up in the comments, this point about Latin not having all of the prepositions English has, and I decided the commenter was on to something and we should get this conversation out of the way first. Today, we’ll discuss the preposition of and how it’s connected to the genitive case. Does Latin Have Prepositions? Well, yes, actually. Yes it does. Remember, prepositions help define relationships between one thing Continue Reading...
I love, adore, and have always used AmblesideOnline as our homeschool curriculum. Also, I have always collected books. In the high school years, when AO takes a pick-and-choose salad bar approach, I can’t help but consider not just the books on the lists, but also the books on my shelves. They have been waiting their whole lives for this moment, and so have I! As much as I adored my littles, the teen years are my absolute favorite. I’ve also Continue Reading...
Can we learn Latin in our homeschools, even though Mom has no clue? Mom doesn't have to TEACH it; only FACILITATE it. And this can work out beautifully!
Overwhelmed by the idea of Swedish Drill? Here are the basics you need to know to get through the book and get started with your children.
Subscribe! About Afterthoughts Afterthoughts is a place to nourish the mind. This blog got its name from what it does, which is to attempt to think through the thoughts of God and man. Very few original thoughts appear on this blog. The bulk of the ideas are simply afterthoughts: thoughts that other people thunk first. Anything original is purely accidental. So what do we think about? Good books. Charlotte Mason. Educational philosophy. Random stuff. My rambunctious youngest child. Messy Continue Reading...
Plutarch is a commonly referenced subject among Charlotte Mason homeschoolers. We know that Charlotte Mason primarily incorporated Plutarch for lessons in citizenship. This was not, however, the whole of citizenship education in the P.N.E.U., and Charlotte Mason’s thoughts on citizenship are many and deep. In fact, if we realize the extent to which Charlotte Mason was herself a patriot it might make some of her writings about the State, which often leave us confused, more palatable to us. Perhaps we Continue Reading...
Ravi Jain's five practical ways to implement the philosophy found in his book, The Liberal Arts Tradition.
Get started on Swedish Drill by using these videos designed for beginners using a script created to reinforce the fundamental positions.
A true description of my daughter's first reading lesson ... because sometimes it all comes out better than we expect.
In my final post on principles of antifragility for motherhood, I said that learning to bear small losses prepares us for bearing big losses and that one place this can be practiced is through reading. Most of us don’t live devastating lives, I said. But literature allows us to enter in to the devastation of others. While this isn’t its primary purpose, it’s true that literature can help build so much of what we talked about regarding robustness, resiliency, and Continue Reading...
Stage 4 of the GAPS intro diet (my Stage 4 pinboard is here) allows you to roast meats instead of boiling them, add in cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil (I ONLY use COOC certified oil), add freshly made juice, and add almond bread (which is essentially the pancake recipe made from almond meal or almond flour instead of almond butter). This might not sound like much, but the change in texture is a welcome one. Needless to say, I am Continue Reading...
In our last lesson, we discussed the genitive case. We learned that there is a preposition inside the genitive case. It isn’t completely evident, but it’s implied, and it comes out during translation into English. The dative case also has this going on! Though Latin has a lot of prepositions, some of the ones we use most often in English are right there inside the cases. The Flexible Indirect Object In English, we have two ways of denoting that something Continue Reading...
