We may not be full fledged Charlotte Mason method-users, but I do like some of her ideas and try to incorporate them whenever possibl...

  This winter, whether you want snow to fall or not, why not make a fun lesson out of the cold winter weather? A few ideas to get you s...

Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade , by Melissa Sweet is a biography about Tony Sarg, the ma...

After spending a good chunk of time reading and learning about the American Civil War, we are almost ready to move on in our history stu...

...which my kindergartner loved! Often, my youngest son and I take turns choosing books.  He chooses one, and I read it to him.  Then, I ...

Our local library recently rearranged their shelves in the children's library room, which has made finding certain favorite books har...

During Civil War Day , our children were enthralled with seeing a hiding place from the underground railroad.  Then, a month late...

We are still enjoying our summer break, but that doesn't mean we aren't learning new things! For the most part, our summer lea...

We started with chapter 32 in The Story of the World, Volume 3 .  Then we mapped the Louisiana Purchase on the map and colored a picture...

When our youngest finished his A to Z preschool year , I decided to review his letters and sounds, numbers and counting until summer bre...

Having finished our Revolutionary War studies , we have marched through time in our history lessons.  One more week of general world history...

No, we aren't quite done studying the Revolutionary War yet!  Last week, I shared a few titles that our daughters read about the Revolut...

This year, our oldest son completed a small unit study on ships, navigation, and whaling.  This unit fit easily into the context of our curr...

Don't you just love those picture book biographies by Diane Stanley?  We have read aloud five this year, including  Leonardo da Vinci ,...

This year, our history studies will only carry us through 1850.  Which is about a hundred years too early for studying Martin Luther King J...

Strolling through the children's section of our library, this cover caught my eye.  Though it is about baseball, I was drawn to the ill...

Over the past several weeks we have read aloud from Sebastian Bach: The Boy from Thuringia .  Covering a chapter or two a week, we follo...

Surely you have read this title in a post somewhere else.  I know I have seen it mentioned many times this summer, and to everyone who has e...

After we saw "The Faces of Jesus" showcasing Rembrandt's paintings at a museum, I read aloud from The Life and Work of Rembra...

Though I find great enjoyment in reading Shakespeare's plays and sonnets, I have shied away from sharing Shakespeare's plays with my...