Written by contributor Amida of Journey into Unschooling. You know those high achieving homeschoolers who read by age three and recite the times tables backwards and forwards by 3rd grade? The ones with the perfect penmanship, excellent spelling, and an uncanny ability to build complex mechanical …
Archives for October 2013
Confessions of an abridged book reader
Jamie Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool, also blogs about motherhood at Steady Mom "I pledge allegiance to living books, to the pure classics of literature. And never will an abridgment land on our shelves, for it would ruin our education forever." If you've been homeschooling long, you've no …
How we’re teaching our kids to read classically
The following is a guest post written by Beth Watson of Classical Conversations at Home Amelia Bedelia. Pippi Longstocking. Anne of Green Gables. These are just a few of my favorite book characters from growing up. I love reading. I always have. My husband likes "reading" by listening to …