Category: The Homeschooling Life
Great Books for Great Minds
I’d like to share a small taste of the fruit of all that love of literature with just a few of my top recommendations for each age group.
Eastertide’s Joy and Rest Each Sunday
Easter is the most fabulous feast in the liturgical year, and every Sunday is supposed to be like Easter.
Keeping Lent with Littles
Lent challenges adults on so many levels—through fasting, prayer, and almsgiving—and especially through cultivating a humble and contrite spirit. But what does that look like when our homes and hearts are occupied with young children?
Book Review – Centurion’s Daughter
Centurion’s Daughter is a thoughtful and compelling journey to a little-known period of history when an empire fell and the foundations of Christendom were laid.
Online Catholic Homeschool Conference 2024
The 2024 Online Catholic Homeschool Conference will be held June 7-8, 2024! Register Now at https://catholichomeschoolconference.com/.
Cardinal Newman Society Essay Contest
The Cardinal Newman Society’s 8th annual Essay Scholarship Contest is live and applications are due by February 20th!
St. John Bosco: The Juggling Saint
St. John Bosco: The Juggling Saint by Maria Riley is the third in the Adventures with the Saints series of books about three young children who have the ability to time travel (think Magic Treehouse books or The Chime Travelers series) and meet important saints.
Free Refresh Virtual Homeschool Conference Feb. 9
Come and enjoy the REFRESH! 2024 Online Conference on Friday, February 9th, for an afternoon of online collaboration – where you can learn from wonderful speakers, recharge your homeschooling batteries, and interact with parents attending from all over the world.
CMEC Registration Opening February 9th
The Charlotte Mason Educational Collaborative is great for families searching for a traditional Charlotte Mason education. While not officially Catholic, many of those who run it are Catholic and it is very compatible with Catholic education.
Self-Directed Education for Neurodiverse Children
When raising/educating neurodiverse children (autistic, ADHD, OCD, PDA, etc.), it can be a challenge to figure out how best to educate them so that they can succeed at school and in life. In A Different Way to Learn: Neurodiversity and Self-Directed Education, Naomi Fisher, a clinical psychologist with a Ph.D. in developmental cognitive psychology, offers some ways to approach the challenge.