Dear Reader, In addition to having an excellent title, Deconstructing Penguins by Lawrence and Nancy Gladstone is well worth reading. It is an account of the authors’ experiences leading book groups for children and their parents at the local library. In the first chapter, they give a very funny account of their first attempt at discussing […]
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16 Jun
How I do Charlotte Mason, Part 2
Last time I shared with you some of the ways that my approach to homeschooling differs from Charlotte Mason’s. Those were my exceptions to her philosophy; most of what she suggests I am on board with. I am no purist, however, and I think we all adapt in some ways to what works best for […]
16 Jan
Book Reviews
As long as this list is, it doesn’t include those books related to my study of Reformed Christian education. You can find that list here. Below are other reviews that I have done. Theology: Beth Allison Barr. The Making of Biblical Womanhood. G.C. Berkouwer. Studies in Dogmatics: Man: The Image of God. G.C. Berkouwer. Studies […]
8 Sep
Applying Piaget
Dear Reader, I am in the midst of a mini-series on developmental psychology. My goal with this series is to evaluate the major trends and ideas within this field from a (reformed) Christian perspective with an eye to seeing how we can appropriately make use of the insights of these mostly secular scholars. In the […]
13 Jun
Book List: Bible and Theology
One goal for the summer is to get out a series of booklists with titles we have used over the years. I thought that I had at one point given a list of Bible and Theology books we have used but upon searching find that doesn’t appear to be true. For this topic, more than […]
7 Sep
Should We Use Textbooks?
Dear Reader, This is part of an ongoing series in search of a reformed philosophy theology of education. You can find all the posts here. I seem to be on a roll with practical posts (quite unusual for me). Last time we talked about how theology impacts our methodology in education. This time I’d like to touch on […]
9 Jul
A Charlotte Mason Education in High School: How We Do It
Dear Reader, I get a lot of questions along the lines of “how do you do . . . in high school?” High school is the time when panic seems to set in for a lot of homeschooling moms. My own take on homeschooling high school (as I discussed in this post) is that we shouldn’t abandon our […]
2 Mar
Literary Analysis: Lost Horizon
Dear Reader, As we have before (for the most recent example see this post), my kids and I recently made a stab at literary analysis. We used as our guide Deconstructing Penguins by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone (see my review here). The object of our analysis this time was Lost Horizon by James Hilton. Let […]
20 Oct
Literary Analysis: Bull Run
Dear Reader, Last school year we began a literary analysis series based on the book Deconstructing Penguins by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone. You can find my review of that book here and accounts of or earlier efforts at literary analysis here, here and here. Since we are going to be studying the Civil War this […]
27 Jun
Last Literary Analysis of the Year: Animal Farm
Dear Reader, For our last literary analysis of the year we tackled George Orwell’s Animal Farm (see the earlier ones here, here, and here). This turned out to be a particularly good choice since we had studied both the American and French Revolutions in our homeschool this year. My oldest picked up early on in our reading of the […]
Letters from Nebby 