Homeschooling

Some common homeschooling questions

November 16, 2011

I often get emails asking me about homeschooling, so I thought I’d take a post to answer some of the most common ones I receive. How do you handle homeschooling kids of different ages? They certainly learn things differently, so how do you handle it? Any suggestions or tips for sharing? That can be a [...]

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Monday Q&A | Destination Vacations and Unschooling

June 13, 2011

Every Monday, I answer a few of the questions that my readers send me. If you have a question you’d like me to answer in a future Q&A post, just leave me a comment here or email me (thefrugalgirl [at] gmail [dot] com) and put Q&A in the subject line. I look forward to hearing [...]

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Homeschooling | a black and white photo essay

May 11, 2011

Although my blog is not specifically about homeschooling, I often get homeschooling questions from readers. Since a lot of people don’t really know what a homeschool looks like (of course, that varies from home to home!), I though it would be fun to give you a peek into some of our homeschooling days. Please do [...]

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Snippets of our school morning

March 31, 2011

It’s kinda dark and depressing here this morning, but for some reason, I felt the urge to play with my camera despite the poor light. And since Joshua isn’t quite done with his math yet, I’m using some of my math-checking time to unload pictures. Unloading pictures is far more fun than correcting math. In [...]

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How to do Frugal Charlotte-Mason-Style Geography

November 23, 2010

“Who’s Charlotte Mason?”, you may be wondering. I’ve written a bit about this before, but the Charlotte Mason method is based on the idea that children learn best from real books, not textbooks, and that workbooks are probably not the best way to help children remember what they’re learning. I use a Charlotte Mason approach [...]

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Book Review: Lessons at Blackberry Inn and Pocketful of Pinecones

September 23, 2010

When I was first starting my homeschool journey as a teacher and not a student, my mom gave me a book by Karen Andreola entitled A Charlotte Mason Companion. Basically, it’s a summary of the methods used by Charlotte Mason, an educator who taught in a formal schoolroom, but whose ideas are very applicable in [...]