Pocketful of Pinecones

If you are interested in pursuing nature study with your children, hopefully you found at least one or two useful ideas in our post, 10 Ideas for Nature Study. But sometimes you just have to see something in action to…
If you are interested in pursuing nature study with your children, hopefully you found at least one or two useful ideas in our post, 10 Ideas for Nature Study. But sometimes you just have to see something in action to…
One of the most difficult things to get a handle on when we start educating our children at home is our schedule. There are only so many hours in a day. Along with our duties as wives and mothers, we…
Prayer for a Child by Rachel Field is a gentle first prayer of thanks for the familiar and treasured things, and a trusting petition for the protection of God, warmed by tender, lifelike illustrations. Winner of the 1945 Caldecott medal,…
Books Children Love: A Guide to the Best Children’s Literature by Elizabeth Wilson was written within a Charlotte Mason, living-book philosophy — children need to be provided with “excellently written, interest-holding books on as wide a range of topics as…
Too often we evaluate without knowing where we started. We evaluate using arbitrary evaluation tools that cannot tell us if we have met the goals we were working on. In Evaluating for Excellence: A Handbook for Evaluating Student Progress, Teresa…
For those of us who pull together our own history studies, there is no better resource for finding books to tie in with the time period we are studying than All Through the Ages: History Through Literature Guide by Christine…
The prince is a disagreeable lad with no motive higher than his own self-interest. He’d rather play than learn at his father’s side. He is disrespectful, insolent, and shuns all authority. The king is concerned, that as the one to…
What makes a home? Relationships! Relationships with each other — fulfilling our duties to one another — and our relationship with Christ. These things truly make a home. Originally written in the late 1800’s by Rev. J. R. Miller, Home-Making…
One of the things we hope we have conveyed is that among the many ways we can teach, tutor, train and mentor our children there is only one right way — and that is the way the Lord leads us…
Now this is our idea of “delight-directed” homeschooling: the place where life, education, and home come together. With a wonderful sense of humor and a load of encouragement, Diana Waring motivates us to really serve our children as their tutors…