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Living Literature Top 10 Index

We love living literature! If you’ve been around at all, you know I LOVE living literature!  It’s been such a blessing to our homeschool.  Need to know more about living literature?  Start with my Living Books post. Our Favorite Books Not too long ago, I pulled together a 10-day series (that turned into an 11-day…

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Philosophy Adventure Review

(I received a preview copy of Philosophy Adventure: Pre-Socratics in exchange for my honest review.) Christian Philosophy: Isn’t That An Oxymoron? For most of us who studied philosophy in high school or college, yes, our classes were anything but Christian.  Misleading, worldly, tempting, humanistic and me-centered are just a few of the words I would…

Project-Based Learning: Posters

I’ve been telling you forever about the difference project-based learning has made in our homeschool.  It’s made such a difference, I even included an entire chapter on the subject in Homeschooling Gifted and Advanced Learners! I’ve given you project ideas in the past, but I thought it was high time to dive a little deeper…

Our Schoolroom 2012

It’s just about time for our new school year to start.  I haven’t made many changes to our schoolroom since I last posted a couple years ago, but I am forever reorganizing and the room is just about ready to go! We are blessed to have a finished attic space that we use as a…

Cleopatra Exhibit

Every once in a while, blogging has nice perks.  As a blogger in the Greater Cincinnati area, my children and I were invited to tour the traveling exhibit, Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt, at the Cincinnati Museum Center.  We just so happened to be finishing up Ancient Greek history and moving…

Charlotte Mason Series Q&A

I promised a Q&A follow-up from the CM Series and here it is.  I hope I found all the questions!  If not, or if you think of additional questions, please let me know!  The Q&A is in no particular order, so I hope you can muddle through it without too much frustration. Corrie – I’ve…

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Renaissance Study

Our final unit study of the year turned out to be a great one – even if it was on the lighter side of book learning.  We had just finished an intensive study of the Middle Ages, which naturally covers a lot of Renaissance history.  So, the main purpose of this study was to tie…

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