It is a beautifully sunny, 74-degree day here in coastal Texas, and with the oldest at college and our son at the dentist, the youngest decided to school outside. Funny, this was my vision when we first began homeschooling—days outside on a picnic blanket, completing schoolwork and viewing exotic animals. (You can stop laughing now). […]
Helping a Reluctant Reader to Enjoy Books
I’ve been busy leading a mini-workshop at church for the past couple of weeks. With Dad gone and our church a bit far from home, the kids have had to tag along and busy themselves while I’m teaching. A dear member and friend noticed that the girls occupied themselves with books, and began her lament […]
Quality, not Quantity, in Reading
‘And now it was that, being on some occasion made asham’d of my ignorance in figures, which I had twice failed in learning when at school, I took Cocker’s book of Arithmetick, and went through the whole by myself with great ease. I also read Seller’s and Shermy’s books of Navigation, and became acquainted with […]
Summer Reading
Do you “school” all year around? We do. We never cover all of the classes, but the kids are required to complete math on 3 days/ week, and to read for 1 hour each day. In the summer, that reading time looks totally different than during our regular school year. I had taken shots of […]
The Do-Nothing Summer
This post could have just as easily have been entitled “Second Week of Summer,” but my heart is not to document how we spend each week of what I anticipate to be a 10-week break from our school routine. But this was a week of “ah-has,” as we called them in my corporate days–the point […]