Dewey's Treehouse

Ruth Beechick once complained that school readers used to push all the really interesting stories to the back of the book, and maybe you got...

Fun with chemistry and Jean-Henri Fabre: click on the PDF of Eleanor Doorly's Insect Man and read the chapter on pages 20-21. (Penelo...

Something neat we found last Saturday: the Interfact Reference Children's Atlas . And the CD-Rom still runs on our XP system, even tho...

Is it only coincidence that the two math programs we have liked best both have the initals MM? Actually, so did one we didn't like as mu...

Getting Freedom From Debt (or Cents to Get Debt-Free) has a guest post about DIY Birthday Cakes . Nothing New Nothing Wasted has some thou...

We're not sure--anyway, this looks just like the butterfly that Crayons found this morning. Folded up, it looks like a dead leaf--but ...

I found this article (and quiz) by Brian D. Rude through a comment on another blog. Can you pass the fractions test he gives his first-year...

How are we supposed to end this? We started with A Leisurely Education. Freedom from the small round of busywork, opportunity to grab hold o...

"Our four children came home from their private boarding school in Rhodesia for the last time. They were well-dressed, well-shod, well-...

"Geology I dabbled in, having met with "Lyell's Principles" in the School Library. A piece of spar still remains which I ...

A housekeeping note: I had to decide whether to make the "month" end with April, or go for a nice round number of posts. I think I...

It's co-op day, I have a crocheting lesson to get ready for some homeschooled girls, and we're busy here as well studying forget-me-...

So we were talking about the timeless aspects of what we currently call a Charlotte Mason education, but which has a history pre-dating Char...

Where does CM advice become the most nitty and gritty? Is it in the general comments, the principles and philosophy, given in her six volu...

Last night I found myself deep in Charlotte Mason's School Education (the third volume in the Home Education series), because I was thi...

I'm finding myself thinking more about Charlotte Mason's principle "education is a life." Maybe because a couple of homesc...

This weekend was the big University Women's book sale. We didn't make it there yesterday--we had a really busy day between homescho...

Just nostalgia today: on the same site where I found Aunt Mai's Annual, there are other books mentioned in Charlotte Mason's books o...

Aunt Mai's 1894 Annual, online and readable. Do a search-this-page for "Mai's." They've misspelled Mrs. Steinthal...

"[People need] the cultivation of the power to appreciate, to enjoy, whatever is just, true, and beautiful in thought and expression. ...