homeschooling

Review Quiz: Make it a fun & simple game!

End-of-chapter quizzes. Fill-in-the-blank comprehension questions. Tests. We don’t do them. But the seventh law in The Seven Laws of Teaching states that “no time is wasted which is spent in review.” However, it stipulates, it should be gone over in new ways to really cement the information. Well, I’

Cleaning House While Homeschooling

Cleaning House While Homeschooling

Cleaning and I have a complicated relationship. I am naturally a Messie. I can easily cultivate my oblivion to the state of my house as well as my disdain for the menial, always-needing-to-be-redone work. But I am slowly, continually, reforming – repenting. After all, I know Elisabeth Elliot is right when

Lesson Plans for Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

We’re in the midst of studying Julius Caesar this year. The boys are happy to be doing a play that has nothing to do with marriage or love, but rather with stern and noble Romans. Shakespeare doesn’t need to be intimidating or complicated. It’s really just about

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