Dewey's Treehouse

OK, so yesterday the schedule got interrupted, but the work missed (mostly the independent work) can be caught up over the rest of the week....

Quote for the day, from today's Latin lesson:  "Moved by sense alone, the beast lives in the present, without thought of the past ...

Some ideas for today's school with Lydia: I'm trying to think of a way to work in the first audio installment of The Screwtape L...

Lydia wrote out her own schedule for today's school. Morning: Folk songs (Barbara Allen, Star of the County Down) Finish chapte...

1.  Watch Anna Russell (in 1984) describing the plot of Wagner's Ring Cycle operas.  If anyone can handle those often un-lady-like stori...

Subject: Ecosystems and Biogeography. Group: Science. Class III. Time: 30 minutes. By Mama Squirrel. Book used: The World Around Y...

These ideas are drawn from Lydia's schedule; although she's setting the pace for much of this fall's work herself, it doesn'...

The second week of school.   In some ways it usually goes better than the first week, because you know the whole thing's not going to co...

These days I feel less and less like a homeschool mom. Whatever that is. My eighth grader is now doing so much of her own schoolwork, that...

One week to finish my "summer education?" Old Mortality  is on hold, temporarily, and that's okay; it's not on the sched...

Just a look inside this year's school plan.

Fabric Flowers (Twenty to Make), by Kate Haxell.

In past years we have tried a LOT of school-organizing methods. Some of them were aimed at Mama Squirrel (keeping a binder of what was to be...

Still reading: Why Geology Matters, by Doug Macdougall Old Mortality, by Sir Walter Scott Planning to read or reread: Time as History...

"Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools. But teaching is a creative profession. Teaching, properly conceived, is not a d...

Charlotte Mason frequently refers to the Parents' Review School curriculum as wide and generous, but, paradoxically, it achieves some of...

Reading: Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night  (done that; lots of discussion about women's education) Re-reading the last half of Charlotte...

1.  Because I try to homeschool frugally, and also because we're on the last Squirreling: I've been going through all our potentia...

Part One is here.   The work for this school year takes a key thought from Whatever Happened to Justice , chapter 14, "The Human Ec...

"When I was young I told a tale of buried gold, and men from leagues around dug in the woods.  I dug myself." "But why?...