Taggerung is the 14th novel in the famous Redwall series written by Brian Jacques. Jacques outdoes himself in the stunning tale of a young otter who was kidnapped as a babe by a vermin clan to be their legendary warrior, the Taggerung. One day Tagg deserts the clan because of their cruelty and teams up…
Crime and Punishment – A Review
This book is one of the most brilliant novels ever written, a true literary masterpiece. It is the story of a young Russian student, Raskolnikov, who commits a murder in order to prove his greatness to himself. However, after committing the crime, Raskolnikov is alternately overcome with arrogance and haunted with deep regret. This gripping narrative…
Teaching High School Biology
We usually have our children study biology in the 11th grade, after we’ve spent a year doing Natural Science in 10th grade. After spending a year studying famous naturalists and doing our own questioning, observations, and coming to our own conclusions from our own nine week experiment we are now ready to study living things. Currently,…
Teaching Science: The Early Years
You will see an evident and deliberate lack of textbooks for the early years of science. We encourage you to explore your very own backyard and neighborhood before you endeavor to study science in any formal way. This way, we respect the dignity of the child by engaging him in age appropriate activities that draw them…
Keep Things in Perspective
Throughout the school year, daily life becomes so congested with activity that at times, homeschooling can be overwhelming. To combat discouragement I find it necessary to remind myself WHY I homeschool and review my top priority. On those days when a full school day is impossible, I mentally consider what I can do to work toward my final goal….
What exactly is a Lapbook, and how does it encourage REAL learning?
Before we begin discussing what lap books are, we need to begin by explaining what foldables are. In the early 1980s, Dinah Zike came out with a book called Big Book of Books. This wonderful classic, which is still in print and selling for about the same price it did 20 years ago, describes in clear…
Parent as Teacher: Religion
When my days are not going as planned, we make certain that this is the one subject taking priority. Now, it may be occurring in our history lesson, in that we are discussing the Catholic perspective of the Reformation or the Spanish Inquisition, or the heroic deeds of our country’s forefathers. But most often, it is…
Little Saints Preschool Program ~ A Review
Preschoolers are learning every minute, every day, absorbing their environment. But how do we prepare this environment with rich soil, in which we can plant their precious imaginations? Author and mother of six, Cynthia Blum, has designed the very answer. In the pages of Little Saints: A Catholic Preschool Program with Classical Disciplines, an extraordinary two-year, literature-rich,…