There’s a lot of talk about copywork and quotes from Charlotte Mason abound, but what exactly is it and how can you use it to educate your child?
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One of the things we have enjoyed immensely and seen the most fruit from in our homeschooling journey is our read aloud time. Curling up with a book together as a family is something we all still do,
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It’s every boy’s dream to have a tree house. When we moved to ‘the country’ my three boys begged us to let them build a tree house by the river. Knowing the precariousness of gum trees, we said no.
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Besides having a year by year plan, I always made a long-term plan for each child. This would span several years into the future, giving me a big picture of goals for each of them.
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Life is full of challenges, and part of home educating our children is to teach them how to deal with what life dishes out to them. But this home educating journey is not just about our children – it’s also about you.
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Isolation is something many mothers fear as they contemplate the decision to homeschool, but as you step out of the assembly-line education mold, and take your children into the real world with you, you will rediscover all the wonderful opportunities it has to offer.
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An aware mother doing her best to provide an organic family learning environment is far better than a manufactured, coloured-paper-collaged-bulletin-board type environment.
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Home education is not just about giving our children their education and sending them on their way. It is about being God’s instruments in shaping world changers.
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Many aspects of our society operate from a postmodern worldview. Our children need a basis of thought and knowledge to identify falsehoods and inconsistencies in the postmodern worldview that confronts them.
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It's a myth to think that you have to do a heap more work and have to know whole lot of stuff in order to teach in the highschool years.
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Our investigation into university entrance began in 2007 when our eldest son was 16. Fortunately, he was clear on what he wanted to do (entomology) and we then worked backwards from there:
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Singapore maths programs have consistently produced the top maths students in the world and are a good choice for home educators.
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The object of nature study is firstly to cultivate in your child a love and appreciation for God’s creation allowing him to see and judge true beauty from His perspective.
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Put simply, narration involves your child telling back in his own words what he has just read or heard. This sounds simple enough, but the things going on in your child’s brain while they narrate to you are complex.
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