A journal of our homeschool days in small sunny Singapore. Applying the Charlotte Mason approach in a Classical Education framewor..
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Write with Primary Terms
Published on 2009-12-15 00:50:00
Michael Clay Thompson is the author of a fabulous but unconventional Language Arts program. He made a few interesting points in this video on vocabulary and writing.I have always taught my boys to add adjectives and adverbs to their sentences when writing. So what Thompson had to say about these was quite a revelation to me... Well, can you tell I am not a language expert at all?!Here are some of his points I have extracted from this particular video.1. Plan A to writing and editing is to choose
The Classics
Published on 2009-12-14 20:26:00
Have you ever thought about reading the classics (either yourself or to your children) but shoved the idea because of the possible encounters with "old" words or expressions? Here is a list of classical words that you may want to be familiar with before taking the plunge.I hope to work through these... somehow... ... ...
History : Patricians and Plebeians
Published on 2009-10-29 01:30:00
I have Charlotte Mason to thank for being able to integrate reading, comprehension, writing, spelling, vocabulary and grammar into history and social studies. I rolled all that in within an hour of read aloud, discussion and written narration!Well, this is just what we do regularly. Unconventional?... I know. But it works for us.We are in the middle of our study of ancient Rome, using The Story of the Romans by H. A. Guerber as our spine. We covered the period of the Roman Monarchy (750-500 BC)
