What is classical education and can it be done at home? Can it be mixed with or influenced by other methods? Is classical education a method at all? When we look to random internet sources, we end up more confused. That’s why we need to go back to original sources and let the classical and…
This summer I was browsing CiRCE’s writing program, The Lost Tools of Writing, as I built out my plan for my own lit and writing class. I don’t use the curriculum, but I did skim it for ideas. And, ideas, it turns out, are what it emphasizes (not surprising, if you know CiRCE). Ideas are…
Have you ever noticed? The most eager homeschooling moms are those whose oldest child is 4 or 5? I was one, myself. And when I felt the eye-roll behind the smile of older, deep-in-the-trenches moms, I bristled. “Take me seriously!” I wanted to plead. I knew they were sharing wisdom when they told me to…
If you are starting out homeschooling with a bright-eyed little 5-year-old – a toddler tagging along and another on the way – you eat up the stories of those ahead of you on the journey. What curriculum do you use? What is most important in a homeschool day? What should I be doing? How do…