In case you didn’t know, I’m fascinated with words. The English language is amazing as the myriad of possible adjectives are beyond enumeration. (Exaggeration? Likely, I’ll bet someone, somewhere, has a count on how many adjectives are proper in our English.) #WritersBrain #Write #Author #AuthorBrain #ILoveWriting #TheEnglishLanguageIsBeautiful #HowManyWordsMeanLove #OldMovie [...]
A Peek At Textbooks: Autumn 2022 October 19, 2022 Our textbooks are usually a medley of what works best. This year Christina and Becky have college books only. Christina still digs into our American Government high school textbook this semester because it “makes it easy to understand” as she’s taking [...]
April 26, 2020 What is Praiseworthy? I heard a bit from a youtube radio (do you call them radio guys if they have a channel?) that matched quite nicely with the Bible reading I had today and the actual radio show I listened to on the way to work this [...]
A Peek at our curriculum circa 2018. [...]
June 3, 2018 DuoLingo I like tools that make education fun. This little application is fun, comprehensive, and easy to use. Louis found it, as he’s the language nut in our household. (Seriously, seven languages plus ASL?) I thought I was good with fluency in two and working knowledge in [...]
April 14, 2018 Any Book is Curriculum In our homeschool curriculum, we have base books that everyone has to go through. These are standards like Arithmetic and Language Arts. I add vocabulary workbooks to teach etymology. Once etymology is learned, the student usually finds spelling and vocabulary far easier so [...]
April 12, 2018 Homeschooling Challenge: Their Own Pace One of the challenges I’ve discovered in our home school journey comes from my philosophy to never keep one student back for another. I allow them to advance at their own pace – if this means we spend eight weeks constantly studying [...]
Awesome: journey of a word. [...]
August 20, 2017 Lost in Translation: replenish I like translating old English into what I call “literal today-English” because 15th century England in which “old English” belonged was like another world. Many words have changed meanings in small or big ways in 500 years! It is really another language. Consider [...]