Month: March 2017
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Precious Moments {25th March- 31st March}
This is a very quick precious moments post this week as we have been preparing for some of our Northern Irish friends to come and stay with us, which has meant that I completely forgot to take photos of all the school work we didn’t do 😉 It sounds like we did nothing, but that […]
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Interest Led Homeschooling Teens: Interview with Charlotte
Describe how your school has changed over the past few years? It is more serious now. I can choose the subjects I do with a view to the future, and also when I do them. It is less hands on and more book learning, which is just the type of learning I like to do. […]
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Online College of Art and Design {Review}
Do you have an artist in the family? – A teen who would love to have a career in the art industry but who does not want to attend an institution to achieve that goal? Are you looking for a way for your homeschooled daughter or son to achieve an IGCSE or Level Two equivalent […]
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Charles Darwin {1860-1870}
The nineteenth century was a fascinating time for scientific theory and new discoveries, from Russian, Dmitri Mendeleev’s Periodic Table, (which arranged all the known elements according to their atomic weight), to Louis Pasteur’s discovery that microscopic organisms caused disease, exciting progress was being made in all areas of science. Perhaps the most well known, not to mention […]
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Grandfather’s Journey {Japan and its Tsunamis}
Grandfather’s Journey is a tale about a young man who leaves Japan, sailing across the Pacific Ocean on a steamship. He is a man who wishes to explore, and he does so, wandering across deserts, farmlands and the cities of North America. He finds that he misses Japan whilst in America and yet misses America […]
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Seasons of Joy: Where do I find this thing, called self-control
I want to document what I am learning, as I am learning it, about self-control. It has been an interesting couple of months trawling the scriptures, looking for something, anything, which may tell me why I struggle to control my appetite. I have written down dozens of scriptures over the last few weeks, and have […]
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Precious Moments {18th – 24th March}
Another great week has come and gone. The three older children are preparing to take their exams, Thomas (Chemistry IGCSE) in May and the girls (English Language IGCSE) in June. All three are going through past papers and are using SAM Learning for revision purposes. The rest of our school work is taking a bit […]
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Unschooling Teens – Questions Anybody?
I don’t unschool the younger years. For starters I never want to miss even one minute of the privilege of seeing my children learn along side me, but also my guys just don’t enjoy learning alone when they are young. I am very hands on up until they become teens. There are no hard and […]
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Bessie’s Pillow {Review}
We are currently heading towards the 20th century in our history and I have been happily reading Bessie’s Pillow, a new book from Strong Learning, Inc. handily set right at the start of the 20th century. What Is Bessie’s Pillow? It wasn’t my time to die back in 1906. The mobs, the murder, the rape. The blood running through the […]
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Creating a Masterpiece {Review}
We are so blessed as reviewers to be able to express how interested we are in a curriculum before we review it, and I have to admit I practically begged for this one! The Monthly Plan from Creating a Masterpiece is providing my three artistic daughters with some excellent art instruction and is allowing Lillie to add […]