by Heidi | Nov 19, 2019 | Curriculum Options, Geography & Culture
Teaching homeschool art when I’m not very artistic? This has been one of my perennial homeschool challenges. I love art. I love teaching. But put together teaching and homeschool art? Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate good art. ...
by Heidi | Feb 25, 2019 | Curriculum Options, Homeschool Topics
What do you believe about children and learning? One of the first things we had to do in college was write a statement of philosophy of education. I always found it odd that we wrote this statement so early in our journey as future teachers. Didn’t we need to know...
by Heidi | Jun 15, 2018 | Curriculum Options, Homeschool Topics
Earlier this month I had the opportunity to once again attend the Minnesota Catholic Home Education Conference**. Going into the weekend, I was quite excited to see Jennifer MacKintosh of Wildflowers & Marbles speaking on Charlotte Mason education....
by Heidi | Dec 18, 2013 | Curriculum Options
What does homeschooling a large family with the Montessori method look like? People I meet at homeschool events always seem impressed when they hear we use Montessori at home. Everyone seems to have heard of it, usually through online sources, but it always...
by Heidi | Sep 16, 2013 | Curriculum Options
When we began homeschooling in the Montessori method well over 5 years ago, there were only a handful of Montessori moms on the internet. I had to do a lot of study and research to really understand what it meant to be Montessori and how to make that work at...
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