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Five Ways Enrich Math Lessons and Get Out of a Rut

November 5, 2016 By Jimmie Quick 8 Comments

Five Ways Enrich Math Lessons and Get Out of a Rut

I am a firm believer in the saying, “Variety is the spice of life.” Although I love routine and structure, I  dislike falling into academic ruts. There is really no reason to have boring homeschool lessons. There is so much out there to learn and a limitless number of ways to learn. If lessons are […]

Filed Under: living math Tagged With: living books, living math, math, math across curriculum, math history

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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Hymn Study with Then Sings My Soul

February 14, 2012 By Jimmie Quick 6 Comments

One of the things we have let slide in this past year in America is hymn study. To be honest, because we go to church several times a week, we are getting far more exposure to hymns in America than we ever did even with deliberate hymn study back in China. It just goes to […]

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Middle School Egypt Study

November 29, 2010 By Jimmie Quick 15 Comments

We covered Ancient Egypt way back in first grade, and now we’re revisiting it in sixth grade, using Beautiful Feet ancients as our base. THE BOOKS Non-fiction Seeker of Knowledge: The Man Who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt (Landmark Books) Pyramid by David Macaulay Ancient Egyptian Art (Art in History) Activity/Notebooking/Lapbooking Remembering God’s […]

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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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