by Britt Kelly | Jul 31, 2014 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home
My first year homeschooling my daughter, we did school at home. We didn’t have bells and timers on everything, but I did have a set curriculum of what someone else thought every child that age should know. By the end of the year I had changed my philosophy of how...
by Britt Kelly | Jul 24, 2014 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home
Texas has five required subjects for homeschoolers to teach: reading, spelling, grammar, mathematics and good citizenship. You may have to reread that a few times. Perhaps we should assume that a good citizen has a clue about science, music, art, history, and health....
by Britt Kelly | Jul 17, 2014 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home
A few decades ago, when I was in high school, I quit Calculus. I quit because my teacher couldn’t answer my questions: “Why am I learning this? How is Calculus used in the real world? When would I ever need to know the area of something that is so complex, we can’t...
by Britt Kelly | Jul 10, 2014 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home
My first child was..creatively, excessively mischievous. I call this pucktastic from Puck in Midsummer Night’s Dream. I should have known this from the beginning. She spent a week in the NICU. At first she was in an incubator. She had tubes and wires and suchlike. Our...
by Britt Kelly | Jul 3, 2014 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home
I have been working on an article for Independence Day for a while now. I was reading about Thomas Jefferson’s life and reminding myself of his personal losses in the months preceding the writing of the Declaration of Independence. I read about the Greek word related...
by Britt Kelly | Jul 2, 2014 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home, Home and Family
Our Young Mormon Family blogger, Krystal Wilkerson, is on maternity leave. Filling in for her today is our homeschooling blogger, Britt Kelly, who is sharing some words of wisdom for young moms. 2 Corinthians 6:14 reads “ Be ye not unequally yoked together with...
