Homeschooling
« Previous EntriesPresidential Election
Saturday, January 19th, 2008Spunky’s back and she’s been posting on her investigations into Mike Huckabee. Certainly worth a look. Here’s a post where she links all her previous posts. Then you can read what she’s said since.
Amateur
Sunday, November 25th, 2007I’m glad I wrote that I was only “in” the first chapter in my previous post. Further on in the chapter:
This active use of time is of course for pleasure; its impulse is love. Everybody used to know this when the words amateur and dilettante were taken in their original meanings of “lover” and “seeker [...]
Culture and Scholarship
Sunday, November 25th, 2007I know I have other books I’ve started to read, but none of them hit the spot this Sunday afternoon. So I started another, The Culture We Deserve, by Jacques Barzun whose 100th birthday is later this week.
I’m only in the first chapter, but I can tell I’m really going to like this book. [...]
College Workshop for Homeschoolers
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007For local readers of this blog:
College Workshop for Homeschoolers
November 6, 2007
6:30-9:00 PM
Boulevard Baptist Church
1030 S. Eastgate
Springfield, MO
Many homeschooling parents are worried about the challenges of getting their children ready for college. This workshop will guide you through the process by discussing a college-bound course of study in high school, testing (SAT I, II, ACT, CLEP, [...]
American kids….
Thursday, November 1st, 2007This article in SFGate American kids, dumber than dirt
Warning: The next generation might just be the biggest pile of idiots in U.S. history
is very interesting. I know I originally read it because of a link in someone else’s blog (Common Room?), but I couldn’t find it this morning in order to give credit to [...]
Amy Wilhoite
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007I’ve mentioned Amy Wilhoite here a couple of times and had her linked in the sidebar as she’s gone through a terribly difficult time in her life battling Acute Myelogenous Leukemia. She passed away and went Home for her Ultimate Healing yesterday after a few days with a fungal lung infection that caused difficulty [...]
Henle Latin
Friday, August 31st, 2007For those of you who use Henle Latin, maybe some things I have made will be of help. I’ve uploaded some files to my main Web site that are helpful for uses of the subjunctive, vocabulary drill using the program V-Train, review of topics covered in Henle I
Grit
Sunday, August 26th, 2007Grit I
Grit II
Grit III
These three installments of a Parent’s Review article from the 1890’s plus the Deputy Headmistress’s commentary makes for essential reading. I had wanted to write up a few comments of my own, but I will fall behind in some other things if I do. I have been convinced of the necessity of [...]
Moral Imagination
Thursday, July 26th, 2007The DHM has written a couple of great posts on books, their ability to “awaken the moral imagination”, and “family bickering”.
She says:
I think this Socratic method (asking leading questions) of leading the children to see for themselves that their rights and claims for happiness are no greater than those of the rest of mankind [...]
Beauty
Friday, June 22nd, 2007Go listen to this.
There are three videos. Two are for yesterday June 21 and one is for today June 22. The blond girl (at least) is homeschooled.