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I absolutely love using picture books in our homeschooling, but only if the pictures are captivating and worthy of adding to our study of a subject, like a Thanksgiving picture study. Charlotte Mason encouraged her students to appreciate art through picture study and I have found that all of my children have benefited from her method, especially when implementing it in the … [Read more...] about A Thanksgiving Picture Study that Charlotte Mason Would Have Loved

In some ways, this year's Thanksgiving Sensory Bin is similar to the one we made last year but I guess there are only so many ideas I have for this theme! For this year's Thanksgiving Sensory Bin, I used dry lentils as the base and added felt leaf shaped coasters, fake fall leaves, plastic gourds and plastic pumpkins, and a small turkey. My kids enjoyed playing in this bin … [Read more...] about Thanksgiving Sensory Bin

As we move into the high school years in our homeschool, my son has begun to study modern history. Many curriculum companies save the twentieth century for later years due to the often harsh and more disturbing events that have occurred. While this is true, one advantage to studying this time period in high school is the ability for teens to learn first-hand accounts of … [Read more...] about Stories to Tell: Learning From Oral History