Some time ago Brandon Vogt, a Catholic convert from Protestantism, wrote about how reading and memorizing scriptures is something he’s held on to from his protestant days. It’s an old post, but somehow it came to my attention back in March and...
Monday September 19 Math with Sophie, working on factors in the Miquon book. Ben did a page of matching in Miquon, what makes 20. Anthony did clocks in the Miquon. Bella decided to eschew her math book and instead I helped her to calculate the...
Autonomy Is the Child’s Secret Dream: Free-Range Books, Competence, and Constraint For some time I’ve been aware of this common theme running through so many of our just-for-fun read-aloud books. So many of them could be described in the same...
Monday September 12 Sophie did math, copywork, and French. She also read to me from Child’s Geography. Bella did math, dictation. Ben did math and then brief letter review. Anthony did math, read me Frog and Toad, and copied part of a sentence. I...
Recently a friend shared this article on Facebook: Top Schools Think 7th and 8th Graders Should Be Able to Read These Books. The list is a pretty good one. There are a couple of books I’d teach earlier There are several books I’d hope my kids have...
Sunday September 4 Watched a bit of the St Teresa of Calcutta canonization Mass. Bella was reading a picture book we got from the library about Duke Ellington and so I pulled up some You Tube videos and we watched some clips and listened to some...
Back from our vacation in Maine, ready to dive into school. We took it a bit easy this week, easing into the more rigorous routine. We finished up our modern history, reading the last couple of chapters of Story of the World 4, ready to dive into...
Have Van, Will Travel This year we were able to purchase (with huge help from my Dad) a full size Ford Transit van to replace our poor, dying minivan. This has opened up a whole new world of possibilities (and created a few limitations for parking...