March 08 Edition

Click On Cover to Download PDF version Can you believe that it’s March already? Spring is just around the corner and you know what that means: flowers in bloom, cool crisp air, and Spring Cleaning! We have several articles...

Classical Education: Narrations

Classical Education: Narrations It is one of the most elusive words a homeschooler can hear, “narration.” It seems like a very simple concept, you read and your child tells you what they learned from the reading. It sounds...

Planning Maps Out Success

For me, planning is done in three stages: beginning of the year, weekly, and daily. I also think a mid-year (over Christmas) evaluation on where you are and where you still need to go is very helpful for staying on...

Art Museum Scavenger Hunt

Art Museum Scavenger Hunt The question is not what you look at, but what you see. Henry David Thoreau Last month we focused on listening to music, the first part of a two-part series which will conclude in April. But this...

In Shadows of the Past: Nebraska homeschoolers stand together

In Shadows of the Past: Nebraska homeschoolers stand together Nebraska, 1982. Homeschooling fathers were arrested. Mothers fled the state with their children. Small unaccredited schools operating near the border had escape...

Let’s Play!

Let’s Play! Home school doesn’t have to be work, work, work! It can be fun and games, too. Fun and games doesn’t necessarily mean not educational either. Toys can be learning! Wonderful, exciting, adventurous...

Train Up a Child in the Way He Should Go

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 This is it, isn’t it? Our mission as parents? To train up our children in the way they should go? Indeed it is the...

Nature Study: Enjoying Spring

Psalms 104:24 O LORD, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. For the past couple of weeks I have had the pleasure of witnessing spring blooming all around me. Daffodils...

Motivate Your Child to Learn Using These Four Steps

Motivate Your Child to Learn Using These Four Steps Children naturally love to learn.. Even children attending a traditional school setting enjoy learning–at first–when a kindergarten class is full of neat things to...

Science in the Kitchen

“The more I study science the more I believe in God,” ~Albert Einstein Science in the Kitchen The kitchen is often the hub and the heart of the home. Families spend more time in this special room than any other room...