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  • A Review of Simply Charlotte Mason’s Spelling Wisdom and Using Language Well
  • A Review of ‘100+ Easy and Fun Creative Nature Walks’ and a coupon code just for you!
  • The Truth about our Plans
  • Books,  Homeschool

    The Truth about Teaching our Children to Read {and 5 Simple Steps for Nurturing a Love of Books…}

      A couple of days ago, I shared a special moment on The Unplugged Family Facebook page. My nine-year-old daughter had just finished reading through The Boxcar Children for the first time and was starting into the second book in the series.  It was mid-morning and our home was peacefully quiet with children all engaged in their own activities.  Audrey unfolded her legs and rose from the couch with a satisfied sigh. “Oh, Mama… I just couldn’t LIVE without reading,”  her voice was whimsical and sing-song. I smiled and she continued, “Reading is just delicious.” Oh, my heart.  Those four words will stay emblazoned in my soul forever. Reading Is…

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    When I say, I HATE WINTER!

    January 31, 2012

    Galloping the Globe / Five in a Row – Italy

    November 12, 2012

    Parables from Nature by Margaret Gatty – here is a FREE Download for you… to make printing this classic a little easier!

    July 30, 2016
  • Charlotte Mason,  Family,  Homeschool

    The difference between a Schedule and a Rhythm (and how Rhythm brought Rest to our Homeschool)

          Schedule A. a plan for carrying out a process or procedure, giving lists of intended events and times.   B. to arrange or plan events to take place at a particular time.   Rhythm  A. a strong, regular pattern of movement or sound.   B. a repeated pattern of events marked by natural flow and regular reoccurrence of certain activities.     When I first started my Homeschooling journey,  I tried desperately to create (and re-create) very specific Homeschool Schedules I wanted us to follow.  These comprised of many boxes and many little increments of time, all filled in with exactly what we would do every second…

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    Embracing the Feast of Dedication (Hanukkah)

    December 17, 2014

    Our Choices for Individual Studies / Morning Rotation

    August 11, 2016

    Ideas for Embracing Rosh Hashanah (The Feast of Trumpets)

    October 3, 2016
  • Homeschool,  Reviews

    Our Choices for Individual Studies / Morning Rotation

      So, last week I posted about our Morning Time and Family Loop plans for this year, Term 1. If you haven’t read that post and are genuinely interested in how our year ( or a creatively put-together, Charlotte Mason-inspired year ) looks like, I’d definitely start there.  A huge part of our learning is covered in our Morning Time and Family Loop . Once we finish up Morning Time, the kids move into their Morning Rotations (Individual Work).  This is where they are covering their Language Arts, Math, Notebooking, and Reading.   This year Simon is our 6th grader (oh, my goodness!),  Audrey is in 4th grade, and Alex…

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    Daily Surrender, Daily Renewal

    November 30, 2011

    The Compassion Experience Tour

    October 22, 2016

    Homeschooling Plans for 2017-2018

    March 25, 2017
  • Charlotte Mason,  Homeschool

    Morning Time and Family Learning Plans

        I’m super excited to share our plans for Morning Time and our Family Learning (which we are calling our Family Loop this year). It has been about 2 months now that I’ve been really in the reflecting, thinking, and planning process for the upcoming year.  It is a lot of fun, but, as many of you know – a lot of hard work!  I think I’m on information and decision making overload… but I’ll recover.  *wink* I’m thankful to God for His guidance and the undeserved grace He continues to pour on me as I plan. I feel I have a good vision for the upcoming year and I’m…

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    What Delight-Directed Learning looks like in our home{school}.

    January 7, 2016

    Homeschooling 2011-2012

    March 6, 2012

    A Review of Simply Charlotte Mason’s Visits To… Geography Series (Curriculum)

    February 16, 2017
  • Books,  Charlotte Mason,  Freebies,  Homeschool

    Parables from Nature by Margaret Gatty – here is a FREE Download for you… to make printing this classic a little easier!

        I love that so many classic (and old school!) books are available online for free. These are Public Domain books that are no longer copyrighted and are accessible to anyone and everyone by download.  The problem is, so often the download versions only really work on Kindle or some screen-based reader.  Or, they just don’t print well at all when you try to print them out and have them bound. This is a problem for me because I don’t love reading books on the iPad and when I print, I’m picky about how it looks.  *sigh* This has motivated me to take the time to make certain downloads more…

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    Homeschooling 2011-2012

    March 6, 2012

    The difference between a Schedule and a Rhythm (and how Rhythm brought Rest to our Homeschool)

    August 16, 2016

    Our Favorite Read-Aloud Books from this School Year.

    March 21, 2017
  • Books,  Charlotte Mason,  Freebies,  Homeschool

    Choosing Great Books for your Living Literature List – Help for creating an awesome read-aloud list and a FREE download.

        Hello, dear friends!!! So, I have the privilege of talking to countless homeschool Moms.  Especially Mamas who are all nervous and stressed out and just beginning their homeschool journey. Yep, just like I was 6 years ago…  They talk about when to teach reading, how soon kids should write, how to do math, and if they are covering enough at age 4 (snicker).  And I listen, smile, and try my hardest to be an encourager. I’m afraid though that I sound pretty much a broken record. Every single time I encourage a new homeschool Mama (or one  who is overwhelmed!), I say, “take a deep breath and just READ…

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    Winter Nature Study (…and a Review of NaturExplorers – Coping with the Cold)

    February 17, 2015

    The difference between a Schedule and a Rhythm (and how Rhythm brought Rest to our Homeschool)

    August 16, 2016

    Worry and Truth.

    June 17, 2012
  • Freebies,  Homeschool

    Homeschool Planning – What’s in my Planning and Records Binder? (And a whole bunch of FREE downloads for planning!)

    Only awesomely geeky homeschool Moms will ever read this post with interest, so let’s just all geek-out together and I’ll get all excited to share my organizational binder with you and you can at least pretend to be all excited along with me.  *chuckle* No, honestly though, there are actually quite a few of you lovely Mamas who ask me about organizing our year and how I do it.  Well, some of my organization changes over time but one thing remains – I ALWAYS have a Planning and Records Binder.  In fact, I’ve saved mine from every year of our homeschool journey and they are such cool reminders of all…

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    Whispers from our first Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot)

    October 19, 2014

    How we incorporated Notebooking into our Homeschool Year

    July 19, 2016

    A Detailed (and Whole-Hearted!) Review of Draw Write Now

    April 17, 2015
  • Books

    Read the World – a few Living Books for North America

    Hi friends, and happy weekend.  It has been absolutely scorching here this week and will continue that way for the next several days.  We have been SO blessed to swim in lots of friends’ pools!  (Hooray for mooching everyone else’s backyard pools instead of having our own… ha!) So, we haven’t had tons of time for reading aloud, but we did fit in a few books this week for the North America week.  I have to chuckle though because if I were to take photos of ALL the living books we’ve read set in North America – the post would be endless.  We have read hundreds over the past couple…

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    Join us for a Lesson! {WriteShop Junior}

    October 30, 2016

    Our Choices for Individual Studies / Morning Rotation

    August 11, 2016

    Homeschooling 2011-2012

    March 6, 2012
  • Homeschool

    Spiral Bound Notebooks VS. the Binder System

      An entire post comparing Spiral Bound Notebooks to Binders might be a bit homeschool-geek-ish (at best) but, hey, it IS relevant. If you are going to commit to Notebooking, the style of Notebooking you use will make a huge difference on your year and potentially even on the success of the Notebooking itself.  Often times methods gone wrong can kill the overall philosophy.  (You know what I mean?) So, for those of you who have asked me what style of Notebooks I think is best – this post is for you.  Well, actually, I don’t think I’ll answer which is best – I just plan to chat about the…

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    Join us for a Lesson! {WriteShop Junior}

    October 30, 2016

    Daily Surrender, Daily Renewal

    November 30, 2011

    What Delight-Directed Learning looks like in our home{school}.

    January 7, 2016
  • Homeschool,  Narration,  Notebooking

    How we incorporated Notebooking into our Homeschool Year

       I’m plugging away (just like so many of you, I’m sure) at planning for this coming year of homeschooling.  *smile* And a BIG part of my planning has been contemplating how we will approach Notebooking this year.    Notebooking has always been a part of our homeschool but in the past few years we have been much more intentional about it.  Especially this past school year when we starting using Notebooking for a lot more of our ‘work’. To see what got us started last year, check out these –   Here are some of my past Notebooking Posts: Simplifying and Enriching our Homeschool with Notebooking -Part 1 Simplifying…

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    Africa – East and South

    September 16, 2012

    Reflections from a Christ-Centered Hanukkah

    December 31, 2014

    Keeping Homeschool Simple when Life is Busy and Time is precious…

    February 3, 2017
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