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Top Ten Public Domain Books for a Charlotte Mason Homeschool

June 12, 2012 By Jimmie Quick 8 Comments

This post is part of the iHomeschool Network’s 10 in 10 link up. Today’s topic is top 10 favorite books. I’m taking a living books approach and listing my ten favorite public domain titles for a Charlotte Mason homeschool. These are books are untainted by modern political correctness and are rich in advanced vocabulary. Best of all, […]

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Used Book Sale Bargains

May 20, 2011 By Jimmie Quick 14 Comments

On Monday night, our local homeschool group had a book sale. A lot of what was there was Abeka curriculum (which sort of pains my CM soul), but I did find some excellent living books here and there. Here are my finds. Novels How God Stopped the Pirates The Tinker’s Daughter A story of John […]

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Da Vinci Picture Books

November 22, 2010 By Jimmie Quick 19 Comments

In our math history lessons (from Livingmath.net) we have finally reached the Renaissance. The focus is on Leonardo Da Vinci, a cross-curricular topic if one ever existed. Is he an artist, an astronomer, a mathematician, or an inventor? Of course, he is all of those, and that’s what makes a study of him so fascinating. We […]

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Banned Books Week

September 30, 2010 By Jimmie Quick 17 Comments

I always knew that freedom is highly valued among Americans. But living abroad has made it real as I see how free we truly are. One of those freedoms is our freedom of speech which impacts reading and publishing. Although I am a conservative Christian, I am not in favor of censorship. I’ve been on […]

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Reference Books

August 16, 2010 By Jimmie Quick 9 Comments

I’ve found that with a living books approach, a collection of reference books is vital. If we used textbooks, everything we “needed” to know would probably be right there. But since we use living books, we often come up with questions and need more information. I love going off on those types of tangents, those […]

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