Articles tagged Daily Routine

Getting Started Homeschooling: Organizing Your Day
by Jennifer
Wednesday, 20 August, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
Wednesday, 20 August, 2014
categories: Articles, Big Ideas: Truth, Beauty, Goodness and more!, Classical Christian Education, Homeschooling Life
In previous articles, we have looked at choosing your curriculum and methodology and organizing your school room. Now we can consider how to organize your day. As a state manager and practicum speaker for Classical Conversations, I have been repeatedly asked to...

A Day in the Life of the Watsons

by Beth
Friday, 06 December, 2013
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Homeschooling Life
Friday, 06 December, 2013
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Grammar Stage (ages 4 to 11), Homeschooling Life
Raise your hand if every day is homeschooling utopia with your family. No? No hands raised? None here either!
One of my most favorite things about my group of friends is no matter what kind of day I have had with my children, if I tell my friends, at least one of them...

Challenge: The Icing on the Cake (How to Manage Foundations, Essentials, and Challenge at the Same Time)
by Courtney and
Monday, 23 September, 2013
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
Monday, 23 September, 2013
categories: Articles, Classical Christian Education, Dialectic Stage (ages 12 to 14), Rhetoric Stage (ages 14 to 18)
I used to think that Foundations was the best time of homeschool life. It is fun to sing the songs, read the picture books, and take lots of field trips. However, now that I have two teenagers in high school (Challenge I and Challenge II) I am experiencing some payoff...

Rethinking the Daily Grind

When I was in high school, one of my favorite attention-getting quotations came from the famous German composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750): “Without my morning coffee, I’m just like a dried-up piece of roast goat.”1 Reciting this line was guaranteed to generate...