To Test or Not to Test…Should I Test My Homeschooler?

Many homeschoolers must test due to state regulations. Many homeschoolers choose to test to track progress and fill in educational gaps. Many homeschoolers educate at home precisely to avoid testing. Which is right? As with many hot topics in the homeschooling community, I don’t know if there is a right or wrong answer. Our state [...]

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Charlotte Mason Grammar ~ Free Language Lessons

Looking for a Charlotte Mason Grammar book that’s gentle yet thorough? Something with substance yet delightful to look at? A book that  you can curl on the couch and read conversationally? Well, then do I have some gems for you! Today my oldest daughter (7) came to me requesting the grammar books we used to [...]

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A Nature Walk with Aunt Bessie

A Nature Walk with Aunt Bessie… No, we don’t have an Aunt Bessie. That is the title of a new book we are using…or rather an old book reprinted and revamped by Queen’s Homeschool Supply. One of those true living books about nature that I longed to read to my children but had no clue [...]

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Living Math for Elementary Students

In the process of ordering upcoming curriculum for the year, Ive been thinking a lot about Luc and how we want to do kindergarten with him this fall.  I knew we were going to be using the free online Progressive Phonics and our Bob books and Leap Frog videos. I just wasn’t sure about math. [...]

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Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival going on today!

Hey homeschooling moms…head on over to Fisher Academy International for some Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival hopping! Can’t wait to go poke around myself this afternoon.

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An Educational Treasure Chest (aka Charlotte Mason freebies)

Sometimes you stumble across a site that just makes your mouth water as a homeschooling momma! Today was such a day! I opened my email box and found my new Homeschool Freebie of the Day email and saw a link to this wonderful, hard-working mom’s site, We Don’t Need No Education (don’cha just love that [...]

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Field Guides as Living Books

A field guide ~ that handy little book (or big book, as the case may be) that tells you factually exactly what you need to know about what you wanted to know about. Not exactly what we think of when we think living books. Living books for me usually encompass thoughts about a really great [...]

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Homeschool Freebie ~ The Voice of Spring

I’m so excited to be able to tell you about the Homeschool Freebie of the Day today! As our weather is heating up to the high forties, as the birds are singing again in the air, as I can finally see the blades of grass under the dingy slushy ice snow piles, as I am [...]

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Homeschool Freebies

Just wanted to let you know about a wonderful site that I visit weekly called Homeschool Freebie of the Day! When you subscribe they send you one email each Monday with that week’s lineup of free things you can download to your computer. It is an eclectic, wonderful mix of things ranging from old children’s [...]

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The Spelling Bee

We are ramping up again to participate in the 2010 HEN (Home Educators Network) Spelling Bee for homeschoolers of the Omaha area. I found out about this event last year through my Christian homeschooling support group: The Discovery Group. Gabe, who is a natural speller, was interested in trying out. Since it was his idea, [...]

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Narrations

First narrations of the new year.  Every good Charlotte Mason homeschooler knows that narrations are key. How do my children feel, though?  Lily doesn’t mind a bit.  In fact, when she was four and first started “doing” narrations (not because I made her but because she wanted to do school with Gabe) she thought a [...]

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