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Homeschool preschool planning with A Year of Playing Skillfully

Earlier this week, I gave the inside scoop of how I organize, plan, and schedule our year with Ambleside Online. But what about...

Homeschool planning and scheduling with Ambleside Online

I've been up to my eyeballs in prep for the 2021-2022 school year for weeks now. How we organize our homeschool is a frequent topic of conve

What I want for my kids

One of the things I deeply love about a Charlotte Mason approach to education is that it’s about equipping children to be learners. To...

Preschool Homeschool

This is what “preschool” homeschool looks like here, along with books and folksongs and outdoor play. (She’s having a popcorn snack with...

On education and setting the table.

We are about ready for #StephensAcademy 2020-2021. Even though we’ve done this for over a decade now, every year is a bit different with...

Beware the Instagram Homeschool

I picked flowers with my 3 year old today. We practiced calling them daisies. She tromped around the top of a ski mountain in Wisconsin...

2020 Homeschool Peptalk

It’s time for a homeschool peptalk. I see you, feeling all the stress of 2020 somehow piling up and making planning for the new school...

The righteous will live (and school) by faith

Planning has begun for Stephens Academy 2020-2021. With the next year looking so uncertain in classrooms around the country, I know many...

What I wish people knew about our homeschool

Many times when people comment to me that they could never do homeschooling, the comment is being made on the heels of an unexpected...

A Planning Peptalk

Planning for the fall homeschool term. Feeling the same feelings I do every year and maybe I’m not the only one who needs a peptalk....

Grace that is greater

We’ve been in DC this weekend. In relentless rain. Oh, and a hurricane is heading toward part two of our vacation. This has been the...

Why you shouldn't homeschool your kids

As leaves fill the trees, graduation parties fill the squares on our May calendar, and thoughts of summer vacation fill our minds......