Doing A Nature Calendar With Your Kids Our nature journals are really nature calendar examples of events we did over the years. We did nature journaling regularly as a homeschool family and I can see the benefits. All of my children have become aware of their...
Using Living Books For Home Schooling What is a living book? How can I use these books for homeschooling?“Children can be most fitly educated on Books and Things...The value of this education by Things is receiving wide recognition, but intellectual education to be...
Eclectic Homeschooling - I’m Not A Purist I used an eclectic homeschooling style inspired by Charlotte Mason. Whilst I never thought of myself purist but I was churning on the inside. My friend had just messaged me telling me to jump online to defend myself because I...
Have you ever heard someone say homeschool teachers need training? Do you agree! I certainly do. But they don't need to learn how to be a school teacher. The first time we hit advanced high school math, I decided I wasn't qualified to teach homeschool anymore and I...
Adding Structure To Your Day With Homeschool Workboxes Homeschool workboxes really were one of the best organisational changes that we made to our homeschool set up. I'm a fairly unstructured person, my husband is the opposite. He was always telling me that I needed...
Book of Centuries - Why Use One? Charlotte Mason wanted children to learn history and to understand the flow of history. She used timelines, history charts and this curious Book of Centuries. Her plan was for children to see history holistically. Not as just a...
How to Connect With Other Homeschool Families Connecting with other homeschool families seems like a natural thing to do when you begin homeschooling. But finding other families, and forming friendships is easier said than done. I was blessed to have that in my...
Homeschool Outcomes - Hopes And Dreams When you first start out homeschooling, your hopes are all just dreams. You want to do so much for your kids and you hope where you want to go, is where you will actually end up. Then as the years tick on, and you pass each...
The examinations served as an opportunity for the students to demonstrate what they had learned through the term and they were intended to serve as a record of learning. The Charlotte Mason exams were not designed to be studied for. No special preparation was required on the part of the child before sitting an examination.
Thoughts on Classic Books For Children Recently a reader of A Living Education asked for an article on the place of reading the classic books for children in a curriculum. A great many excellent articles have been written on this topic, notably one by Rob Shearer of...
Do you need good advice on how to home school a child with special needs? Here at My Homeschool we are happy to offer some valuable tips and strategies to help you create a successful learning environment for your child. With a broad feast of subjects, Living Books, and a range of unique teaching methods, a Charlotte Mason inspired homeschool may be just what you have been looking for.
Rubbish Advice For New Home Schoolers There is a lot of terrible advice for new homeschoolers who find themselves just starting with homeschooling. Unfortunately, it is hard to discern the good from the bad. Here are some common “good in theory” but “terrible in...
Morning Time Simply Put Last year I read Cindy Rollin's book Mere Motherhood. I loved reading her story as she muddled through her journey working out her homeschool groove. She coined a phrase which has become a buzz word in homeschool circles these days – Morning...
'I'll Never Homeschool' So You're Having Coffee With Your Never Homeschool Friends... You are sitting around a table with some friends who have children in school. They are raving (or complaining or comparing) about their child’s new class teachers. They talk about...
It's Chore Time Kids! Empty toilet paper rolls and damp crumpled towels litter the bathroom floor. Wincing with pain I pick another Lego block from my foot as I pass one of the four clothes covered bedrooms. I’m ready to escape but I can't! People are coming over...
Finding Your Child's Homeschool Motivation What we do to help our kids get motivated. "Can't you just do your homeschool and then it's finished and you can play?" Intrinsic & Extrinsic Homeschool Motivation Children will find an intrinsic (internal) motivation to...
Educating The Homeschool Mother Educating the homeschool mum or mother culture is one of the sustaining ideas of a Charlotte Mason education. She didn't want children to just learn, she wanted those who educate to also be nourishing their own minds with good...
A Homeschool Day With High Schoolers What I wished our homeschool days look like and what they actually look like are usually quite different. Every week I have some interruption that ruins my ideal plans. This week it is no different: Monday morning started with...