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Our Morning Basket, or how we start our homeschool mornings

June 21, 2017 by The Learning Basket 1 Comment

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Our morning routine used to be a fairly unorganized affair. I would grab a prayer book for children , and lead the kids to prayer. Then we would dive in to our dedicated learning time. Having organized our homeschool last year and transitioned to a Charlotte Mason education, I became aware of a richer morning routine. Some people call it Morning Time (and do it any time of … [Read more...]

Living books… books that live in your heart

May 5, 2017 by The Learning Basket Leave a Comment

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I’ve always loved books, old ones especially. I treasured the classics that I grew up with. I've even started to pass some of them on to my daughter, yellowed pages and all. See above! In homeschooling my kids, I was naturally and inevitably drawn to materials and curricula that make use of books with great literary power. We gobbled up the books in "Five in a Row" (FIAR). … [Read more...]

How we transitioned to a Charlotte Mason inspired homeschool

April 18, 2017 by The Learning Basket 6 Comments

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I’ve been doing unit studies since we started homeschooling almost seven years ago. You’ve all seen how much fun we’ve had following Five in a Row and making our own literature-based studies. But then, my eldest got older (she’s nine now, gasp!), I had a new baby, and I’m doing a lot at home, that I lost a bit of my homeschool footing. I was tired all the time and was just … [Read more...]

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