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Paradigm shift: Curriculum is not something you buy ~ Written by Sarah Mackenzie of Amongst Lovely Things. What if we've got it all wrong? What if it doesn't matter which books we use, which history projects we take on, how many lessons of math we accomplish in a year? Homeschoolers spent an …
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Written by Sarah Mackenzie of Amongst Lovely Things. It’s 11am. The twins are emptying the tea cupboard onto the floor, the 2 year-old is fussing, and I’m standing at the fridge, trying to decide what to make for lunch. Just then my 11 year-old walks into the room. “What should I be doing right …
How decision fatigue is wearing down your homeschoolRead More
Written by Sarah Mackenzie of Amongst Lovely Things. Three school-age kids, three toddlers. Sometimes I wonder if my blog’s name should actually be Amongst LIVELY Things. :) Let me give you a little background on us. We’re classical homeschoolers in the CiRCE sense- meaning that we believe …
Sarah’s homeschool day in the life (with twin 1-year-olds & a 2-, 9-, 11- and 13-year-oldRead More
Written by contributor Sarah Mackenzie of Amongst Lovely Things When my oldest children were small, I couldn’t wait until we could read middle grade novels together. I enjoyed reading picture books with them, of course, but it had been Beverly Cleary and Roald Dahl who had sparked my own …
5 tips for reading middle grade novels with your kidsRead More
