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…
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Managers of Their Homes {Review}
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…
Review: The Book Tree
The Book Tree summaries convey the flavor of the selection, assisting parents in choosing literature for their families.
Review: Prayer for a Child
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,…
Review: Books Children Love
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…
The Young Investor ~ Review
The Young Investor: Projects and Activities for Making Your Money Grow makes the basics of financial investing easy to understand.
Evaluating for Excellence
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…
All Through the Ages ~ Review
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…
Sir Malcolm and the Missing Prince ~ Review
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…
Unit Studies Made Easy ~ Review
Unit Studies Made Easy will be your guide as you pull together your own units. Includes samples and resource list.
Home-Making ~ Free eBook
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…
The Original Home Schooling Series
The Original Home Schooling Series, six volumes, detail Charlotte Mason’s philosophies formed from her experiences with children.
Managers of Their Schools ~ Review
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…
Beyond Survival ~ Review
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…
Little House in the Ozarks ~ Review
Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote articles published in farm journals and women's magazines during an interesting period in American history.
Wonders of Creation Series
The Wonders of Creation series is wonderfully illustrated and full of information, while engaging and easy-to-understand.
Pink and Say ~ Review
Pink and Say is a picture book by Patricia Polacco set during the Civil War. A story that speaks to the heart and leaves the reader changed.