by Laurie Bluedorn | Oct 15, 2008 | Raising Children
Kendra Fletcher is the homeschooling mother of eight, ages 15 down to 5 months. She has never known what it means to homeschool without the presence of preschoolers, and loves to encourage other moms beginning their homeschool journeys with little ones underfoot. Her...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Oct 15, 2008 | Contests
….I still don’t have a winner in last week’s Homeschooling with the Trivium (#513) contest. Email me if you think you know the answer.
by Laurie Bluedorn | Oct 15, 2008 | Reading Aloud
Dear Laurie, This year I began slowly shifting over to using the trivium method, but am interested in finding books I can read aloud to my 2nd and 3rd graders. Please give me any suggestions you might have. Thank you, Julie, CA How about these: Shasta of the Wolves by...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Oct 14, 2008 | Children's Books
By the way, This is what Frank L. Baum said about the same subject in the original book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz first published in 1900. “Can’t you give me brains?” asked the Scarecrow. “You don’t need them. You are learning something...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Oct 14, 2008 | Latin
I have a question regarding the Artes Latinae Latin curriculum. The publisher Bolchazy-Carducci claims, “Conventional techniques of Latin-to-English and English-to-Latin are used sparingly. Memorization of rules is minimized. In place of this there is a mass of...
