So now your children know how to read. Congratulations! That’s a major step, but does it mean that their reading instruction finished? Not at all, we’ve found. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading teaches the average reader how to understand, analyze, and learn from books. It takes students beyond […]
August, 2011:
Internet Holiday
Sometime in the next 24 hours we’ll lose our internet connection. Sometime in the next week or 10 days, we’ll get it back…with a new provider. Although I hope to have a few posts scheduled before then, I won’t be able to float around the internet commenting and visiting. So our family will have an internet holiday, which […]
Free Charlotte Mason Treasures for Your Homeschool
Charlotte Mason believed that education should “make our boys and girls rich towards God, rich towards society and rich towards themselves.” Ambleside Online (discussed here) follows Charlotte Mason’s ideals by providing children with treasures that will give them this richness. Year 1 is my favorite Ambleside year, full of classics that appeal to all ages and […]