I took my own advice from my last post and changed the youngest’s daily schedule around. Early results are that I’m far less overwhelmed by the amount of work there is to do when I bring the oldest home from college. The youngest is a little shaky with a mid-course change in her routine–she’s so much […]
5 Considerations when a Homeschool Schedule is Just Paper
Blessed are the flexible, for they’ll never be bent out of shape. At least, that’s what I’ve heard. I pride myself on spending gargantuan amounts of time each summer planning our school days–selecting curriculum, thinking through a workable schedule, ordering my own workload in order to take advantage of peaks and valleys in each child’s […]
If I Could Only Get Them to Think
Have you ever noticed the wealth of information available to a home educator of a young child versus the relative dearth of educational topics geaed toward older children? I thought to do my small part to close the gap in my recent Heart of the Matter article, “If I Could Only Get Them to Think…” […]
Queen Bees: Social Insects?
This was our youngest dd’s written narration on honeybees as we continued our study of social insects earlier today. The queen bee’s behavior had a particular impact upon her: ‘Bees take honey from smaller hives. If the babies are fed royal food [a special diet for the queen’s growth] more than three days [the queen bee] kills them. […]
The Value of Not Planning (too much)
Right after I posted my last post, I ran across this quote while reading someone else’s blog. Miss Mason speaks here to the heart of not over-planning: “They must be left to themselves for a good part of the day to take in their own impressions of nature’s beauty. There’s nothing worse than children being […]