How IEW Rescued our Writing
For years my kids struggled with their writing skills. My daughter couldn’t write cohesively, whereas my son was overly verbose. None of it made sense.
Historical Sewing and Time Travels
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Becoming Pocahontas, Squanto, and a Praying Indian
Using IEW my kids wrote a 10-page research paper on the settling of the Thirteen Colonies, which they used to create a power point presentation.
National Spelling Bee Benefits
How we cracked the secret code to spelling via the National Spelling Bee list, with many thanks to the Greeks, and Romans, etc.
Assessing our first year of Classical Dialectic Studies
Except for the classical history curriculum that created more work for me than solutions, I was quite happy with our other programs.
Becoming Ancient Romans
For our Ancient Rome history presentation we welcomed extended family flew 1500 miles to join local extended family members as our guests.
Becoming Ancient Cultures History Presentation
After we ate, my kids took the guests on a tour through our homeschool museum of the various ancient cultures we had studied.
Unlocking a Pop-Up Book for moveable Halley’s Comet
My son got super creative with his paragraph on Halley’s Comet, after studying Ancient Mesopotamia.
He created a slider and claslp for his comet pop up book.
Becoming Ancient Egyptians
Mom proclaims: This homeschool is not fluff! The rest of the family needs to come, and I’m going to tell them that. When is the next history presentation?
Our Dialectic Classical Homeschool Journey Begins
Prior to attending this bookfair, I researched classical homeschool curricula. The bookfair gave me an opportunity to look at these options in person.
Classical Education: Freedom, Virtue, Great Conversation
My mom had always complained that I wasn’t reading real books in school…which became obvious in college. My classmates discussed book I only heard of.
