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"For parents who are concerned about the quality, safety, and care offered in traditional school systems, trusted homeschool expert Durenda Wilson equips you with the resources you need to give your child a great education and a healthy, successful future--and in less time than you think--in The Four-Hour School Day"--
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When Ben Hewitt and his wife bought a sprawling acreage of field and forest in northern Vermont, the landscape easily allowed them to envision the self-sustaining family farm they were eager to start. But over the years, the land became so much more than a building site; it became the birthplace of their two sons, the main source of family income and food, and ultimately, both classroom and home for their children. Having opted out of formal...
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Cindy Rollins
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[2019]
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96 pages ; 23 cm
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"I am Cindy Rollins, author of Mere Motherhood: a Handbook to Morning Time, and Hallelujah: a Journey through Advent with Handel's Messiah. From December 2016 to December 2018, I put out a newsletter. It contained some of my best writing. After I moved on to other projects, it occurred to me that those newsletters might be helpful to others if they were collected together. Here they are complete with poems in the public domain and recipes, which were...
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Blue Sky Daisies
Pub. Date
[2021]
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264 pages ; 19 cm
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Cindy Rollins provides insight and advice into how to use morning time effectively in homes and classrooms. Includes Cindy's Morning Time Anthology, over 150 pages of poems, hymn lyrics, Scripture passages, catechisms, Shakespeare passages, and other Morning Time selections gathered to make your Morning time easy to put into practice.
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Charlotte Mason was a late nineteenth-century British educator whose ideas were far ahead of her time. She believed that children are born persons worthy of respect, rather than blank slates, and that it was better to feed their growing minds with living literature and vital ideas and knowledge, rather than dry facts and knowledge filtered and pre-digested by the teacher. Her method of education, still used by some private schools and many homeschooling...
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Formation of Character is the fifth volume of Charlotte Mason's Homeschooling series. The chapters stand alone and are valuable to parents of children of all ages. Part I includes case studies of children (and adults) who cured themselves of bad habits. Part II is a series of reflections on subjects including both schooling and vacations (or "stay-cations" as we now call them). Part III covers various aspects of home schooling, with a special section...
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Formation of Character is the fifth volume of Charlotte Mason's Homeschooling series. The chapters stand alone and are valuable to parents of children of all ages. Part I includes case studies of children (and adults) who cured themselves of bad habits. Part II is a series of reflections on subjects including both schooling and vacations (or "stay-cations" as we now call them). Part III covers various aspects of home schooling, with a special section...
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Homeschooling has been in the educational mainstream for a few decades now. Over two million school-age children (K-12) are currently being homeschooled, and the number keeps going up. This is not a new phenomenon, and you can successfully teach your children at home. However, even with the rising number of homeschooled children in the United States, there are several myths that continue to make people question this viable, educational method.
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What is a good education? What is it for? To answer these questions, Stratford Caldecott shines a fresh light on the three arts of language, in a marvelous recasting of the Trivium whereby Grammar, Dialectic, and Rhetoric are explored as Remembering, Thinking, and Communicating. These are the foundational steps every student must take towards conversion of heart and mind, so that a Catholic Faith can be lived out in unabashed pursuit of the True,...
15) Home Education
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Home Education consists of six lectures by Charlotte Mason about the raising and educating of young children (up to the age of nine), for parents and teachers. She encourages us to spend a lot of time outdoors, immersed in nature and handling natural objects and collecting experiences on which to base the rest of their education. She discusses the use of training in good habits such as attention, thinking, imagining, remembering, performing tasks...
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Bia Willcox's Aunt Wanda's Memories of the Amazon Rainforest takes us on a wonderful journey through the Amazon River, exploring the natural wonders of the rainforest, its fauna, and flora. Children will extend their English vocabulary by reading about typical Amazon animal species and native tribes' customs. All the while learning the importance of maintaining the Amazonian eco-system for future generations. According to Aunt Wanda, the future of...
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Why a growing number of parents choose not to send their children to public school. The companion book to the award-winning documentary 'IndoctrinNation', this eye-opening book includes: An unforgettable introduction by a father who lost his son in the Columbine school massacre: 'I put him in a pagan school where they teach there is no God.' 12 common reasons people give not to homeschool, and the manageable reality of this educational alternative....
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El libro es una crítica de la enseñanza actual, de la metodología utilizada y de la relación del profesorado con el alumnado, a través de sucesos ocurridos en el aula. Se propone una metodología para enseñar de acuerdo con la tecnología y las posibilidades de nuestro siglo a través de unidades didácticas. En las unidades didácticas priman la creatividad, la autoestima del alumnado y el desarrollo de capacidades.
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No shortage of books will help you figure out how to do it, but this book is about why you should. Written from the perspective of a homeschooling father of seven who was himself homeschooled growing up, this is an encouragement to fathers and mothers to think rightly about their children's education. What our children believe about God, themselves, one another, and the universe - these are all features of their education and consequent worldview....
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In Teaching Kids to Write Well: Six Secrets Every Grown-Up Should Know, author, parent and educator Laurisa White Reyes reveals key strategies for cultivating a love of writing in children. Too many of today's children are "turned off" to writing because of criticism, poor grades, or being assigned topics that are of little interest to them. While all children should eventually be taught the rules of grammar and proper structure, they must first discover...
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