The school year is underway, and most likely you are starting to struggle with focusing on learning well. I’m not talking about memorizing facts or producing papers, but actually pursuing knowledge and wisdom. Pursuing knowledge of the holy is a worthy goal, which takes time, effort, and perseverance. How do we develop students who are […]
Retaking your Brain Read More »
Over this past summer, we completed a summer semester. Now I know that I’ve spoken about summer semester before, but I’ll recap real quick. Basically, Summer Semester is a short semester for us to build skills or work through material that isn’t necessarily a typical course. For example, my sons typically review math facts, learn
Note Taking Methods : A whole class? Read More »
Would you rather spend 30 minutes on 1 problem or 1 minute on 30 problems? Obviously, one could argue that 1 minute for 30 problems means they aren’t problems to begin with, but the idea behind the question should be clear. What do we expect from our children? Have we focused so much on completing
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After living in the White Mountains of New Hampshire for most of my early life, the mountains in Maine seemed more like, well, hills. For the first few years I carried around a kind of dissatisfaction; a sentiment that, try as Maine might, it will never be New Hampshire. This kind of attitude kept me
You may have seen my facebook live last week in which I spoke on three of the reasons that we homeschool. These three things keep us going on the hard days: 1. Freedom : to learn, study, travel, build, play, discover, experience, and worship God. We do most of these things by encountering God
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