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October 13, 2020 by: Kortney Garrison

Advent Morning Time

Once Thanksgiving has come and gone, we enter the rush toward Christmas.  With family, church, and homeschooling obligations it can seem like we are always a little bit behind during the month of December. Why not consciously plan ahead and choose to create a little margin?  Homeschooling offers us that kind of flexibility.  In our homeschool, we will be setting aside the bulk of our

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July 23, 2020 by: Kortney Garrison

Morning Time Is Better Together

Morning Time goes by many names: circle time, morning basket, even symposium. Our time learning together anchors and defines our homeschool. Better Together by Pam Barnhill has been a breath of fresh air to our well-established practice.

Morning Time goes by many names: circle time, morning basket, even symposium. In our home this time is anchored by our history study.  We read aloud from our spine book, look at maps, and have rollicking discussions.  From this firm foundation, we move into individual skill work in language arts and math.  But our time learning together anchors and defines our homeschool. My oldest was

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May 23, 2020 by: Kortney Garrison

Plan Your Year for Purpose and Peace

Plan Your Year Review

The pool is open.  The lemonade has been made.  The grill is getting hot.  Summer is in the air.  And homeschooling mothers everywhere breathe a sigh of relief.  Another year finished! But as soon as we turn in the final portfolio or take end of the year tests, our thoughts start to turn to plans for next year.  Where do we even begin?  Excellent published

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April 15, 2020 by: Kortney Garrison

Nurturing Brave Writers

Nurturing Brave Writers

On any ordinary day, after we have put in a good share of work, you can find us gathered at the table sharing a pot of tea.  After everyone is settled with tea and cinnamon toast, I open a book of poems and read one.  We might return to the poem again in the coming days.  But that’s the heart of our simple practice–tea and

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January 22, 2020 by: Kortney Garrison

Consider This by Karen Glass

If you are curious about the intersection of Charlotte Mason and classical models, Consider This is a rich feast that will deepen your understanding and give you much food for thought.

There’s an idea popular in some homeschooling circles that the classical model and Charlotte Mason homeschooling are very different things.  The first is for serious scholars, the second is a less rigorous course of study. In her book Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition, Karen Glass clarifies both the historic tradition that Charlotte Mason writes out of and the sometimes limited understanding of

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December 4, 2019 by: Kortney Garrison

Print to Cursive Proverbs from Simply Charlotte Mason

Print to Cursive Proverbs from Simply Charlotte Mason

At our house handwriting practice was causing friction.  My verbal, creative 2nd grader just didn’t like any kind of writing.  I was on the look out for something that might change her mind. She liked how fancy my own cursive handwriting looked!  Maybe cursive was the solution to our handwriting troubles?  We started a program at the beginning of the school year, but she found

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April 17, 2017 by: Kortney Garrison

Laying Down the Rails for Children

People have strong opinions about interjecting morals onto stories.  Are Aesop’s Fables improved by tacking a pithy moral on the end?  Should we read stories to our kids that aim to improve them?  On first glance Laying Down the Rails for Children might seem to fall into such a category–stories intended to help kids form good habits.  But what I’ve found, is that really the

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March 13, 2017 by: Kortney Garrison

Peace and Progress with Teaching Textbooks

Teaching Textbooks

For the first three years of formal math instruction, we happily used Miquon Math.  We loved the short lessons, the colorful yet not distracting workbooks, and the use of Cuisenaire rods.  But the curriculum only goes through 3rd grade.  Come 4th grade, we were going to need a new math curriculum. We have many friends who happily use Math-U-See, and we thought about it ourselves.

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