• Books and Reading - Homeschooling

    Our Morning Time Plans for 2025-26 Term 1

    August 13, 2025 - By 

    This year we started school the first full week of August, so we are now in week 2! I thought this week I would share what we are doing for Morning Time together in this season of our homeschool. During most of the school year, my son will be at a full day enrichment program every Tuesday, so we will only have 4 mornings together at home. Thus, I made sure to plan a four day schedule, and that is what I will be sharing today. Our routine consists of 4 basic areas, as follows: Prayer and Bible Reading This…

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    Our AmblesideOnline Year 9 Plans

    August 2, 2025 - By 

    Well, somehow the past week got away from me before I had a chance to make a blog post. Life this summer has been busier than I ever could have imagined, and now it is almost over! (And, spoiler alert, things are only going to get crazier from here on out!) Next week we will start a new school year, so lots of new adventures are about to begin. I thought I would sit down here at the outset of the year and share a little about what we are planning for my son’s Year 9 academics. So let’s dive…

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    AmblesideOnline Year 8 in Review, Part 2

    June 3, 2025 - By 

    Welcome back for Part 2 in my review of our experience with AmblesideOnline’s Year 8 curriculum. I have been out of town for the last several days and don’t have a lot of time to write this week, so let’s just jump right back in where we left off last week! NOTE: The book titles mentioned in this post are part of the AmblesideOnline curriculum, which is under copyright of AmblesideOnline.org. The information in this post is intended for educational purposes only. Be aware that AO’s curriculum and resources are revised from time to time. Please be sure to check…

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    AmblesideOnline Year 8 in Review

    May 28, 2025 - By 

    Here we are at the end of another school year and the end of another stage in our homeschool journey. My son is completing AmblesideOnline Year 8 this week, and that means that next year he will enter high school and be in what Charlotte Mason called Form IV. Every new grade level and form comes with new challenges, and at the beginning of every year I feel woefully inadequate and unprepared for what is coming. Yet, at the end of the year, I look back and am amazed at what we managed to accomplish and how my children have…

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    Recap of Our AmblesideOnline Year 4: The Second Time Through

    May 14, 2025 - By 

    As we wrap up our school year this month, I am looking back over the year and reflecting on progress made and things I might want to work on changing as I plan ahead for next year. My daughter is about to finish AmblesideOnline’s Year 4, and this is my second time guiding a student through this year in our homeschool. Before beginning to write, I scrolled through some of my old blog posts and realized that the last time I recorded anything about our AO year, it was a 4-part series about Year 4 as I was in the…