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If you’ve ever begun to read Charlotte Mason’s Home Education series, you’ll know that she is highly quotable. I am going through it again, and I wanted to record all the memorable Charlotte Mason quotes I’ve found. In this post, there are quotes about play, children, nature, schools, habits, mothers, short lessons, authority, principles, narration, education, and learning. These are from her book Home Education.   Charlotte Mason Quotes on Mothers and Children Children ‘Nothing is trivial that concerns a child; his foolish-seeming words and ways are pregnant with meaning for the wise.’ [Part 1] ‘By the saying, Education is...

Homeschool Reflection Questions Have you finished your homeschool year? If you did, no doubt, this one ended more dramatically than any other one, right? Whew! What a year! I usually take some time to reflect how the year went for our family.  I’m always curious to see what the kids think now that the year is over. A number of years ago, I made a questionnaire for the kids to pick out some of their best memories, favorite projects, and things like that.  I also am curious to see if they have thoughts about things they want to change for...

This post contains affiliate links. For more information, please see my Terms of Use and Disclosure Policy page. Thank you. One of the subjects that many struggle with is mathematics. Whether you had trouble with the subject yourself or you came to it naturally you may wonder, "Just how will I teach math in my homeschool?" Fortunately, there are many resources from full curriculum

When my eldest was in the fourth grade, and we initially began homeschooling, we met a family at one of our weekly activities who told us about a wonderful homeschool co-op in Arcadia. At the time we were plugged in to a few groups in Pasadena, so I did not get the chance to visit. Five years later — after leaving and coming back to homeschooling — I did check out the co-op, and loved it! My sixth grader took classes in both robotics and gameology. During that year, I met the co-op director, Carrie De Francisco. (Somehow she found...

This is just a really quick post to tell you that I updated the Homeschooling Kindergarten-1st Grade page and also updated the FREE 50+ Page Curriculum Resource Guide. You will find that free printable here: Creating Your Homeschool Curriculum: Kindergarten – Grade 1 FREE Homeschool Planning Guide This is a FREE 50+ page resource guide that I put together to help answer some basic questions: What subjects should I teach my Kindergartner or 1st grader? What topics should we explore? Where do I start? How do I know what to teach my kids? These are some of the units and...