Monthly Archives: February 2010

Bayeux Tapestry Battle of Hastings video

This video shows a very clever reenactment of the Battle of Hastings from the Norman’s point of view using an animation of the Bayeux Tapestry.

Great Homeschool Resource: Google Docs

Google Docs is basically a simple online word processor. It has all of the same very basic functions as Microsoft Word. The difference is that a document is stored and edited online. This is what makes Google Docs a powerful tool in my homeschool.

Using Magic Tree House Books in your Homeschool

If you are a parent of elementry aged students, you have probably already heard about Mary Pope Osborne’s Magic Tree House Series so you can probably skip the next section (FYI Mary Pope Osborne has some other books that are ideal for classical homeschools but I’ll save that for a later post). If you haven’t heard about the series, let… (more…)

Great Homeschool Resource: DonnaYoung.org

One extremely valuable homeschool resource I use over and over again is Donna Young’s site appropriately called http://donnayoung.org/index.htm.

What is Classical Education?

Classical education refers to an education approach that recognizes a three phase learning process call the trivium. The trivium consists of the grammar stage, the logic stage and the rhetoric stage which corresponds with the age/grade level of the child. This education method usually works through the history of the world chronologically and ties in most other subjects with the study of history, especially literature.

The Definition of a Homeschool

A homeschool is an educational lifestyle outside of public or private school in which a parent or guardian directs the education of a minor child or children.