History News & All About Reading

I cannot even express how excited I have been during the past two weeks of Sonlight Core B history lessons. Why? Because we discovered The Greek News. It is a History News publication book presenting Ancient Greece in an “eyewitness news” format. What a genius idea! The layout is captivating, the articles witty and informative, […]

Worship & Art

Recently, God has been burdening my heart with a desire to have more specific prayer times throughout the school day. God’s appointed prayer times occur every day in the morning and afternoon (corresponding to the morning and evening sacrifices in the Temple), but I had never consistently made them a part of our routine. Then […]

Heart check

Next week will be 12 weeks that we’ve been doing school. It has been consistent and straightforward for the most part. What has blessed me the most is seeing how much we are able to accomplish this year compared to last year. When we started, the twins were still nursing babies and Chims was a […]

Not slogging yet!

We are almost a quarter of the way through our year. It feels like I’m accomplishing a lot just by doing school with the girls during the summer while all the other kids are playing outside and going on vacation. Silly, I know, but I have a great sense of commitment to getting through all […]

Favorite ♥ Moments First three weeks

My preparation has paid off and I am so pleased that I put the time and effort into scheduling and organizing when I had the opportunity over our six week spring/summer break. There is something serene about the state of perfection the school room possesses before the very first day of class. The notebooks are […]

Creating an appetite

Since we love having a literature-rich environment in our home, not only for school but also for enjoyment, it is incumbent upon me to evaluate every book before it gets to be on the children’s bookshelf. There is a very strong tradition in many Christian homeschool curricula to avoid at all costs any types of […]

It’s all Greek to me

As I’ve poured over and refined my school schedule for this coming year, I have not felt comfortable about my plans for vocabulary. We have not been happy with vocabulary workbooks because they have proven to be ineffective thus far, and we’ve gone through THREE levels with disappointing retention rates. My girls can memorize anything […]

Piecing it together #1

Okay, I’m working through the stacks and stacks of books, packing for storage what we will not use in the next year. I promised myself I would not even look at the new books (nope, not even open them) until I was completely finished with last year, but now we are and I can hardly […]

Box Day!

The day our homeschool materials arrive from Sonlight is lovingly called Box Day, not only by our family, but by many of the other excited families who frequent the Sonlight forums. Today, our Core B materials arrived. We are currently celebrating the week of Unleavened Bread, and I have to admit that taking a break […]

Chronological history

There are many differing opinions when it comes to teaching history in homeschool. I have not yet defined “the best” one for our family, but I like some of what I have found so far. I want to teach history chronologically because I believe that is the best way to explain the timeline to children. […]