Does your kid hate to write?
Steam is starting to come out of your ears as you listen to the tap, tap, tap of your son’s pencil on that blank page as he sits there… groaning and sighing, staring at the ceiling fan going around… and…
Funny Figurative Language Lesson Plan
He slouched at the table, pencil in hand. But instead of working on his worksheet (yawn), he watched a tiny black ant crawling all the way across the windowsill… Are your kids’ eyes glazing over at lame language arts lessons…
Drop the busywork! Notebooking makes learning stick. Here’s how.
If you want to bring your kids’ education to life while still having time to take care of your other responsibilities, you need to make sure that everything you do gives you results. You want every activity, every lesson you teach,…
Vocabulary Studies and Charlotte Mason
An extensive knowledge of the exact meanings of English words accompanies outstanding success in this country more often than any other single characteristic we have been able to isolate and measure. —Research Scientist Johnson O’Connor An extensive vocabulary is a…
Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival – Topic: Composition
Teaching composition the “Charlotte Mason way” is not formally teaching it at all. Rather, it is relying upon her methods, including the reading of great literature, then having students provide various types of narrations and dictation. The reference from Volume…