Write your Best with Write with the Best

As eclectic Charlotte Mason homeschoolers, we appreciate reading and studying good pieces of literature and writing, keeping our lessons shorter for each subject area, and using a more whole language approach to our learning.        Educational Diagnostic Prescriptive Services has a writing program called Write with the Best. There are two volumes; one for grades [...]

Katie’s Homeschool Cottage Now on Currclick!

(The following is a press release of a special announcement) The era of digital delivery is here and Katie’s Homeschool Cottage is at the forefront.  You can now easily download our education  material 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at CurrClick.com We are happy to announce that we’ve teamed up with CurrClick.com and [...]

A Journey Through Learning Lapbooks

  Lapbooking is one of those homeschool activities that we have discussed here before. If you have read my post on this, you will remember that cutting and pasting booklets into a file folder does not hold alot of appeal to my boys for some reason. For another odd reason, when cutting and pasting them [...]

What is a StudyPod?

What is a StudyPod? Well, as part of the Homeschool Crew, my family received and has been using a nifty gizmo that holds books and papers so that you may read them at a comfortable angle and still have your hands free! These handy study devices come in three colors: black, blue, and pink. They [...]

Hands On Homeschool Blog Carnival

Along with our Charlotte Mason methods that we use in our studies, we love to do hands-on activities that tie into our topics. That’s why we really are more of an eclectic Charlotte Mason homeschool. We usually do activities that tie into a historical period that results in us coordinating our history with our science [...]

Thank you to those who placed a comment about my blog in the contest!

Well, it’s late and I have to get up early to walk the dog in the morning – but I wanted to be sure to thank all of you who took the time and made the effort to go to http://homeschoolent.com/2009/09/the-readers-choice-award-2009/ to make a comment about my blog. Because of you and your gracious comments, I [...]

New Autumn Nature Study and More

Well, some of you asked for smaller units for nature studies and we did it! This is not just a nature study though. Just like our Nature Study Through the Year book, this nature study uses nature to introduce more formal scientific study topics and areas. So to use an old saying, “You can have your [...]

Charlotte Mason Homeschool Blog Carnival and Homeschool Blog Carnival

Sorry this is so late – getting back into full time school mode. You all know how that is. I encourage everyone to visit the following homeschool blogs for some great ideas from other homeschoolers to get your new school year off to a fun-filled start with new ideas. Here are the links: Jimmie’s Collage and [...]

Getting You Ready – College Prep Genius

Do you find the idea of helping your child prepare for testing for college intimidating? Are you confused about the content on the newly revised SAT or whether or not your child should take an “educated guess” for those questions he might be unsure of the answer? If you’ve answered “yes” to any of these [...]

Homeschooling Teens and the Socialization Factor

I’m hoping to write this post so that others will post comments and ideas about helping to fill your teens’ needs for socialization while homeschooling them. They (not quite sure who “they” really are) say that the teen years are when they start to really crave and need more socialization and search for independence so that [...]