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August, 2011:

Review: How to Read a Book by Adler and Van Doren

  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 […]

Weekly Wrap-Up: Computers, Tomatoes, and Planning

In my life this week …  The whole house is being reorganized now that I have a modern laptop.  I used to use two computers simultaneously because they were so old and slow, and these two now belong to our three youngest girls.  It’s so exciting for everyone!  Note that our computers are not used […]

Fit Mommy Friday

This was my week to plan our homeschool and to prepare for the school year.  So that’s what I did…and not much else got done.  I spent many hours sitting at the computer with mountains of books on the floor around me…but I didn’t climb a single hill.  Nor did I garden.  Nor did I […]

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 […]