… at the CIRCE Institute. Ages ago, before the dawn of the internet and instant homeschool gratification (what? we don’t have to wait for the once-a-year curriculum fair to see materials?) I first learned of this thing called Classical Education, specifically Classical Christian Education. In many ways my fumbling steps are only now becoming more [...]

Once, back in the early days of our homeschooling, I heard another mom say “We have good days and we have bad days, but in the end – I really like my kids!” That sums it up perfectly. Some days the lessons go smoothly and the math manipulative is your friend. Some days  you step [...]

Since a few have been absent for this week’s lesson, I thought I’d upload 2 pictures to show how we wrote our class practice paragraph for WriteShop 1, lesson 5: Describe a Food. You can see the mind map that we created (while we were eating popcorn of course! You have to experience the food [...]