Category: homeschool
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Homeschool: unstructured and interest-led?
Our home education style is becoming less structured. I’ve been reading and thinking about how learning happens best, and what sort of things are most important to learn. I’m moving more and more towards learning that is less structured and more interest led. I’m not doing anything drastic like throwing out our curriculum, but we’re…
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Nature Study on Tybee Island
I often say that we don’t do as much nature study as I’d like, but what I’ve come to realize is that, although we don’t always have pretty nature journal pages to show for it, and I don’t always take my camera along to document it all, our lives have gradually become more nature-focused. I…
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Old Chest of Drawers = Craft Supply Center
I’m trying to make our home more creativity-encouraging. Part of my plan involves providing plenty of art and craft supplies — and making it easy to find things, and easy to put them away! A major step towards that goal was finding a chest of drawers to store art/craft supplies neatly but out of sight…
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Working towards Creativity
Recently, I have discovered FIMBY, and it has become a new favorite blog, largely because of the way Renee’s family makes creative arts a priority. The projects are awesome (check out her daughter’s Japanese doll and a handmade chess set), but even if we never make those sorts of things, I want to do a…
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Grapevine Bible Studies Curriculum Review
Stick-figuring through the Bible: We reviewed Grapevine’s Esther study. A description from the publisher: Travel back in time with your children and teens as they study the book of Esther. Bible students will begin in the ancient Persian Empire, as King Ahasuersus banishes Queen Vashti and begins a search for a new queen. Watch as a…