Author: Jamie
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Springtime Homeschooling {+ Volvo love}
Those of you who don’t live around here may not know there are actually five seasons in Georgia: summer (by far the longest of the seasons), fall (delightful), winter (often with nary a snowflake to be seen), spring (beautiful but usually too short), and pollen (wedged right in the middle of spring). During this season,…
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DIY: How to Build a Rain Barrel
Someday, when my garden grows up, it’s going to be a cottage garden. I’ve been working on making it into one for years now, and that’s taken a whole lot of trial and error in regards to what works and what doesn’t. It’s an ongoing process. Our house isn’t at all cottage style, but surrounding…
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Worth Reading: my latest book recommendations
I go in spurts with reading. When I have a bunch of other things going on, I neglect my stack o’ books, but then read one right after another. Sometimes I have more than one book going at a time: maybe a nice little fiction novel, something Bible studyish, perhaps something related to homeschooling, and…
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Relaxed Homeschooling: Core Phase for Young Learners
I believe young kids benefit from very relaxed, unschoolish, interest-led learning, and a delayed start to structured academics. In the Leadership (or Thomas Jefferson) Education model I’ve been discussing, this is the Core Phase of learning. Our primary goals during these Core Phase years are: to encourage learning in an unstructured way to teach what…
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How to be Friends with an Introvert
Is there an introvert in your life who you just don’t “get”? Then on behalf of introverts everywhere, I’d like to thank you for making an effort to understand us better. We know we can be a little quirky. First of all, let’s dispel a few common myths about introverts: Being introverted does NOT mean…