Curriculum and book reviews, faith, homeschooling and more!
is currently being celebrated.
Should you like to know more about this go check it out over here.
Great Books Week 2011 is honoring Great Expectations in its 150th anniversary year. It’s a haunting classic, with a host of funny, memorable characters and a thought-provoking plot.
Focus on this issue is math, but other stuff is included as well.
I enjoyed this post.
A couple of posts in the realm of homeschooling that I liked.
1. because it is so true of a variety of things in life. This one pertains to homeschooling, but as with anything, the wrong expectations can net you an outcome you didn’t anticipate.
2. 1+1+1=1 this post just made me smile today.
We Choose Virtues is a company that makes a quality product. They focus on providing materials that help parents/teachers teach their children virtues.
The Crafty Classroom is hosting a giveway of their products, and give an extra entry for blogging about it, so here I am. 🙂
I have to admit to having mixed feelings about a curriculum that teaches virtues.
On one hand I see it as a helpful tool for people to use to teach character to their children.
BUT on the other hand… with good biblical training doesn’t one teach these character traits as one lives life?
So it’s a mixed bag for me. The helpfulness on the one hand in promoting vs the taking away from the parental responsibility to simply train as one lives life. It seems schoolish to me. As in the public school actually have built curriculums to teach character in the school system because so many parents are working and abdicating some of their responsibilities in this regard.
I don’t tend to see homeschooling parents doing this. We’re with our children mostly all the time so it’s hard for us to let that sort of thing slip.
But on the other hand… it is an aid. And should aids be shunned? or merely carefully examined?
A mixed bag. I haven’t made up my mind.
What do you all think?
I’m not going to waste my time...
This blogger has a good response or two, to those who would question our ability to homeschool our children. 🙂 Thought others might appreciate it as well.
the question at heart of the home is this
After hours and hours of research, consultation, lists and that big ol’ investment… what did you finally decide for your curriculum? Please share your choices – by age (or grade) if possible.
Well, being in our first year of homeschooling, my methodology at this point is really varied.
I use books that I’ve picked up here and there along the way… copywork, math, etc. We go to the library, we do unit studies as I’m on a review team, go on field trips, play a lot 🙂 .. what can I say…he’s five. We use a variety of resources on-line, with one of our current favourite places being teachers pay teachers.
and I suppose that’s all I’ve got to say right now. 🙂
For some decent freebies of the day relating to homeschooling go there. 🙂
and because i don’t want to lose track of these, I’m copying them down here. 🙂
Khan Academy. It is located at this addie.
An Old Fashioned Education. Go here to connect with the site directly.
EYEWITNESS TO HISTORY.COM. Go here to connect with the site directly.
Pocket College. Go here to connect to the site directly.
Nineteenth Century American Children & What They Read. Click here to go to today’s featured site. And don’t miss the page on Children.
and then there’s this toymakers site. 🙂