by Britt Kelly | Aug 28, 2014 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home, Featured
Long, long ago when we were young and naive, my husband and I tried to plan our children’s lives. Specifically, we were considering how long we would homeschool. Elementary school was a given. We value childhood and the freedom, play, and individualized education that...
by Valerie Steimle | Aug 16, 2014 | Valerie Steimle: Strengthening Families
Following the discussion from last week’s post of parents’ responsibility for teaching children, this week’s topic is the secular education of families. Although spiritual and secular learning can be combined, some parents choose to separate. Any way a parent chooses...
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...
