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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
  • Charlotte Mason,  Homeschool,  Reviews

    A Review of Simply Charlotte Mason’s Spelling Wisdom and Using Language Well

    I have reviewed several of the Simply Charlotte Mason products because, truth is, I really love their resources.  We are a pretty Charlotte Mason focused homeschool so I’ve made use of a ton of their plans, subject-based items, and podcasts, guides, and videos.  I love how SCM keeps things very accessible but also challenging and pretty true to Mason. We have been using Spelling Wisdom and Using Language Well for several years now and have quite enjoyed these two resources all around.  (Our kids using these are 15, 13, 11 and they all enjoy them.)   What is Dictation? Spelling Wisdom uses the idea of Prepared Written Dictation to accomplish…

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

    January 7, 2016

    Enjoy Summer Learning with Engaging Nature Studies from NaturExplorers

    June 5, 2015

    Embracing the Feast of Dedication (Hanukkah)

    December 17, 2014
  • Homeschool,  Reviews

    Homeschooling Plans for 2017-2018

    Hello, friends!   So, it’s an exciting time of year for many homeschoolers as the Spring planning season is upon us.  Catalogs and Vendor Halls and Conferences, OH MY! This year, I spent most of January and February praying, researching, and planning.  This was mostly done while feeding a precious baby in the middle of the night.  *wink*  We had a beautiful baby boy join our family in December through adoption and it has been a wonderful whirlwind!  I haven’t done babies for 8 years… but we are back in the swing.  And loving it! I realized quite quickly, however,  that I couldn’t possibly put together all my own plans…

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    Preparing our Hearts for the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot)

    October 8, 2014

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

    January 7, 2016

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

    February 16, 2017
  • Family,  Homeschool

    Hello from the Homefront! {Updates, Homeschool planning}

    Hi! So, I thought I’d just write a very down-to-earth post sharing what’s been going on in our family for the past few months and what is whirling around in my mind as I ponder our year. I know, it’s been too long! This year, in so many ways has been quite different.  To be honest, as I always warn, we have completed some but definitely not all of our ‘plan’.  We started our walk through Modern History (using Simply Charlotte Mason’s family guide) and are still only at Lesson 36 of a 176 lesson program.  *sigh* But, that doesn’t mean we haven’t been learning. I don’t know if any…

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    How we incorporated Notebooking into our Homeschool Year

    July 19, 2016

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

    February 3, 2017

    The Truth about our Plans

    May 4, 2020
  • Homeschool,  Nature Study

    Nature Studies for Spring and Summer Time with NaturExplorers

    The NaturExplorers units from Our Journey Westward are some of my absolute favourite Charlotte Mason-friendly Nature Study resources. Not only is Cindy one of the nicest people in the homeschool blogging world, she’s amazingly talented at putting together easy to use, interesting, and fun units that bring life to our homeschool… There is SO much in these amazing unit studies – Cindy has packed the pages full of incredible ideas and inspirations to jump start all kinds of nature study as well as notebooking and nature journaling.  The guides are easy to use and very well laid out.   They are also good for quite the age range, with ideas to carry you…

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    Galloping the Globe – Great Britain

    October 2, 2012

    The Only Kids in the Creek

    May 29, 2012

    Daily Surrender, Daily Renewal

    November 30, 2011
  • Charlotte Mason,  Homeschool,  Reviews

    A Review of Simply Charlotte Mason’s Stories of the Nations and Stories of America

      Our family uses many of the resources found over at Simply Charlotte Mason.   I honestly love the friendly, easy to use materials and their affordability.  Last year we worked through the Family Guide for Early Modern History and Epistles .  This took us on a living books learning journey from 1550-1850 that centred around family learning and reading.  I’m always adding to and changing the formal plan laid out in the guides but they are so affordable, it’s completely fine in my opinion even if you only use them as a springboard for era study.  You can, mind you, use them as a well laid-out curriculum.  This year…

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    Ideas for Celebrating a Christ-Centered Hanukkah (Feast of Dedication/Festival of Lights)

    December 4, 2015

    Simplifying (and Enriching) our Homeschool with Notebooking {Part 2}

    September 30, 2015

    How we incorporated Notebooking into our Homeschool Year

    July 19, 2016
  • Charlotte Mason,  Homeschool

    The Value of Play (what Charlotte Mason had to say…)

    “There is a danger in these days of much educational effort that children’s play should be crowded out [or what is the same thing] should be prescribed for and arranged until there is no more freedom of choice about play than about work. We do not say a word against the educational value of games (such as football, basketball, etc.) … but organized games are not play in the sense we have in view. Boys and girls must have time to invent episodes, carry on adventures, live heroic lives, lay sieges and carry forts, even if the fortress be an old armchair; and in these affairs the elders must neither…

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

    February 3, 2017

    Embracing the Biblical Feasts and Celebrations (our family’s journey…)

    December 5, 2015

    Making the Most of Used Curriculum Sales, Book Fairs, and Conference Vendor Halls

    May 23, 2019
  • Charlotte Mason,  Homeschool,  Reviews

    Review of Simply Charlotte Mason’s Family Study Handbooks

          I’m super happy to review Modern Times, Epistles, and Revelation from Simply Charlotte Mason for you.  *smile* I love SimplyCharlotteMason.com and have blogged extensively about how we implement Charlotte Mason inspired plans with the help of much of the SCM resources  If you ever use Simply Charlotte Mason’s free curriculum guide you will be directed to choose a history time period to study together as a family. These guides, arranged by time period, by Sonya Shafer, act as the backbone of the Simply Charlotte Mason ‘curriculum’.  They are central to carrying out the SCM program in your family.There are six guides for six different time periods flowing…

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    Our first look at All About Reading Level 1 and 2 – Getting Started!

    June 10, 2015

    Links for getting started with Notebooking

    October 28, 2015

    Ideas for Celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot)

    September 29, 2015
  • 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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    Hello from the Homefront! {Updates, Homeschool planning}

    March 18, 2017

    Embracing the Biblical Feasts and Celebrations (our family’s journey…)

    December 5, 2015

    Ideas for Celebrating a Christ-Centered Hanukkah (Feast of Dedication/Festival of Lights)

    December 4, 2015
  • 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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    The difference between a Schedule and a Rhythm (and how Rhythm brought Rest to our Homeschool)

    August 16, 2016

    A Weak Homeschooler’s Prayer

    January 17, 2012

    For Such a Time as This… Whispers for Purim {The Feast of Lots}

    March 6, 2015
  • 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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    Embracing the Feast of Dedication (Hanukkah)

    December 17, 2014

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

    February 17, 2015

    Preparing our Hearts for the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot)

    October 8, 2014
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Hey, I'm Cassandra... wife to Wes and homeschool Mama to five awesome kiddos. I'm so glad you're here. This is my humble place to share about family, faith, homeschooling, unplugging, and this crazy journey called life...

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