Brenda Our second-born, Kaleb, flew over the ocean to England, last week.. He’ll be gone for ten weeks, on a mission trip, serving people in Romania. Last year, he spent ten weeks serving at a parish in York, England. You’d think the parting would get easier, but I can honestly tell you: I’ve shed some tears! … Read more
Family Read Aloud Books or Independent Reading: Nature, Forms 4 & 5 Field, Forest and Farm by Jean-Henri Fabre This book is scheduled at a pace of one to three chapters per week from Week 1 through Week 28. You can download the pdf here: Note, links on this page are affiliate links, in which I … Read more
Family Read Aloud Books or Independent Reading: Nature, Form 3+ The Story Book of Science by Jean Henri Fabre whole year This book is scheduled at a pace of one or two chapters per week for all twenty-eight weeks. You can download the pdf here: Christian Liberty Nature Reader Book 4 second edition This is scheduled at … Read more
Make sure to read the post How to Teach Science and Nature. Christian Liberty Nature Reader Book 2 second edition This book is scheduled at a pace of one or two lessons per week for twenty-eight weeks. You can download the pdf here: Christian Liberty Nature Reader Book 3 second edition This book is scheduled at … Read more
Form 2+ (or, whole family read aloud books) Tommy Smith’s Animals by Edmund Selous This book is scheduled at a pace of one chapter every-other-week from Week 1 through Week 23. You can download the pdf here: Tommy Smith at the Zoo by Edmund Selous This book is scheduled at a pace of one chapter every-other-week from … Read more
Picture Books, Form 1+ (or, whole family read aloud) The following books are not included on any of the PDF schedules here. You may want to look for these books at a public or church library or purchase used or new copies. If you like to keep careful schedules, you could schedule one picture book per week or … Read more
I’ve been dreaming of setting up a booth at TTD for a year now. Last year, Karry and I got the chance to go to the conference by ourselves. Here are some photos: With my favorite person at the whole conference. ❤️ I met Linda Lacour Hobar, the author of Mystery of History. These are fabulous history … Read more
We sing hymns at STAR Homeschool Community every week. You can also sing hymns at home! In our home, we sing two hymns per day. If we sing all of these hymns over the four cycles of the GLC curriculum, our family will learn more than one hundred hymns. Little by little, it adds up! Hymns to … Read more
Picture Books, Form 1+ The following books are not included on any of the PDF schedules here. You may want to look for these books at a public or church library or purchase used or new copies. If you like to keep careful schedules, you could schedule one picture book per week or read a page or two … Read more
Form 3+ (or, whole family read aloud) The Handbook of Nature Study: Mammals by Anna Botsford Comstock You may choose to purchase the full Handbook of Nature Study book. If you purchase the full book, you will use it over the four cycles for Forms 3, 4 and 5, but you will only make use of the “Mammals” … Read more