by Leslie Sholly | Aug 21, 2014 | books, Catholicism, Education, homeschooling
Did you think I’d given up writing about my home-made homeschool curriculum? Think again! It’s just that I’ve been busy actually DOING homeschooling, as school began last week. And so far it is going pretty well. Today I want to write on our...
by Leslie Sholly | Aug 7, 2014 | Education, Five Favorites, linkups
Just a quick Five Favorites post today because 1) I’m late and 2) I’ve got too much to do today! I’ve got homeschooling on the brain these days, what with school starting (UGH!) on Monday, so today I’ll share five favorite things about...
by Leslie Sholly | Aug 7, 2014 | books, Catholicism, Education, family
. . . so it stands to reason that I would be excited about teaching Lorelei English this year. And I’m especially excited about this: This book is sort of vintage and sort of not. What do I mean? Well, it’s a reprint of a book that was published in...
by Leslie Sholly | Aug 5, 2014 | Education, family
I can’t remember, way back when I decided to homeschool Jake for 4th grade, how I came up with my social studies curriculum. But it’s a simple one, and we don’t use a textbook. The theme of the year is States and Presidents. Lorelei will learn all...
by Leslie Sholly | Aug 2, 2014 | Education
That would be penmanship, but it’s going to be a daily subject in our homeschool this year. [Update: This dream died halfway through the first year, I am ashamed to say.] In my eight years of Catholic grade school, we had handwriting practice EVERY SINGLE DAY....
by Leslie Sholly | Aug 1, 2014 | Education
See, I think I misspoke (miswrote?) when I titled my last homeschooling post Math Doesn’t Have to Be Fun. It was catchy, which is a good quality for a title, but I probably should have said something like Math Books Don’t Need to Be Fun. Because I happen...