Dewey's Treehouse

 "In school there was as little literature then as there is now, and I cannot say anything worse of our school reading; but I was no...

Some things to do for school today: Out of the Silent Planet , chapter 20. Math. Science. French. History. Writing. That enoug...

I'm going to send you over to JavaMom's blog today for a back-a-few-years post . Check out the vintage Parents' Review ads! But ...

Downloaded through  Homeschool Freebie of the Day : the fall 2011 issue of Joyous Home , free this week. If you like teatimes and embroidery...

Mr. Fixit makes good beef stew, I was going to say out of his head but that sounds strange; without a recipe, anyway.  But when I make stew,...

Some things to do for school today: Read chapter 11, How to Be Your Own Selfiish Pig .  Susan Schaeffer Macaulay includes a quote from C.S...

A Yahoo video popped up the other day, showing how you can fit shoes, socks, t-shirts, pajamas, and a man's suit and shirts into a ve...

A change of pace for hymns:  Come People of the Risen King, by Keith and Kristyn Getty and Stuart Townend. Read Theodore Roethke's ...

Book used:  Complete French Smart Grade 7 This lesson's special vocabulary (begun last week): nouns for things like lawn, earth, grass...

First off, I have to point you to this quite marvellous post on Afterthoughts, Teaching Our Children the Way of the Reason . "Marvellou...

"...this way delight is necessary for happiness. For it is caused by the appetite being at rest in the good attained ~~ St. Thom...

So...discipline, as Kathy commented on the last post, is a gift that we give our children rather than something we impose on them. This ...

The Christmas Stick , by Tim J. Myers .  Illustrated by Necdet Yilmaz.  Published by Paraclete Press , November 2014. What bad things co...

What's in the oven? Carnivorous pasta bake: ground turkey, pepperoni, pasta sauce, fusilli, Italian cheese blend Herbivorous pasta b...

"By Education is a  discipline , is meant the  discipline  of habits formed definitely and thoughtfully, whether habits of mind or b...

Tonight's dinner menu: Saving Dinner's vegetable chili, in the slow cooker  (photos from the last time we made this ) Leftover ch...

"That the discipline of the habits of the good life, both intellectual and moral, forms a good third of education, we all believe. T...

Tonight's menu: Garlic Lime Chicken, from Saving Dinner (see video below) Brown rice Acorn squash Tortilla chips, sour cream ...

Quick, what comes to mind when you think of discipline? Spiritual disciplines? Jesus and the disciples? Military discipline? The yea...

Some school plans for this week: In the matter of self-discipline, I've noticed that some previously-scheduled writing (reader'...