This is my messy morning schedule I scribbled out while I was at the beach Thursday. Cindy Rollins’ talk at the AO At Home Conference in Indiana this summer about her precious moments with the kids in the mornings re-inspired me to look at my scheduling again. We’re starting school Wednesday this week and spreading […]
Have you found a perfect schedule yet? We have. Not to say we won’t change our minds again, but this one seems to work for the kids’ growing independence and our simple straightforward way. Jeannette Tulis posted her version of it a while back and it was love at first sight. So simple, so basic,
I recently heard a very liberating discovery dug up in the May 1914 edition of L’Umile Pianta. But before I mention it here’s part of Redeemer’s description of the ‘magazine’: In 1895 the House of Education Old Students’ Association was formed to provide current and ‘old’ students who were scattered abroad, opportunities to keep in
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I am coming rather late to this treasure of a Parent’s Review article – Imagination as a Powerful Factor in a Well-balanced Mind by E.A. Parish – 98 years late to be exact! More recently, within CM circles it seems to have made its rounds with Nancy Kelly of Sage Parnassus leading a session by
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You may recall my unfortunate post here. As I mentioned, planning out our meals was the first place I wanted change because it would bring the greatest relief. This past week was my first week designing the change I wanted in our home. We sat down at dinner one night and made a list of
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I finally got around to finishing my YR4 daughter’s schedule for Term 1. Most of the work was in figuring out how our day would flow and then splitting up the readings, particularly Robinson Crusoe. I have the Junior Deluxe Edition, which has no chapters, making it very time consuming to split the readings for
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My, this blog has been sorely neglected! Time is just an extremely rare commodity these days, but all for good reasons 🙂 A while back I mentioned I was reading the book “A Mother’s Rule of Life, How to Bring Order to Your Home and Peace to Your Soul” by Holly Pierlot. I’ve been enjoying
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One of the most common questions new homeschooling Moms have is “What does a day look like?” I remember my stomach churning in knots the summer prior to my oldest starting Kindergarten. Everything I had read about the Charlotte Mason method resonated deeply with me – treating the child as a person, living books, not
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I love my schedule. I refer to it throughout the day. It’s like having a road map to know what comes next. Over time, parts of my schedule become habit, and I hardly need it, but I still find satisfaction in checking something off my list, feeling productive, doing as I ought. I have a