Mid-Course Corrections

weekly wrap-up

This is my first Weekly Wrap-Up in three weeks! Things have just been getting away from me lately. I’m glad to “be back!”

Here I am, at the beginning of March, and my well laid out school plans have been pushed aside.  I feel disappointed in myself, and yet I see that adjustments

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Free Planner/Journal Page

I have been struggling with what to do about lesson planning. I love Donna Young’s planner pages, among others, but still just didn’t find anything I really thought I would make good use of. I owned The Home Education Copybook for many years. I sold it while I was on hiatus from homeschooling…

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Education is… a discipline

Charlotte Mason was a really wise lady. My focus for school right now is discipline. No, I’m not instituting mandatory daily spankings or anything like that! The discipline, actually, is for me.

Getting back into the swing of homeschooling, truly homeschooling and not public school in my home, is an adjustment.

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Special needs homeschooling info

Lately I haven’t been posting much, because I have been reading. A LOT. Many of you know that I “may” be bringing my boys home for school again. My husband and I have a deal: I find out as much as I can about teaching our special needs son (ideas, routines, redirection techniques,

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Charlotte Mason and Special Needs

As I am praying desperately to bring my boys home again, I realized that I have neglected to continue my own education on Charlotte Mason’s educational ideas. I realized this yesterday, and since have been back to studying my Charlotte Mason Study Guide by Penny Gardner. I printed this out when I first

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