• Home
  • About Me
    • Reviews & Advertisements
    • Affiliations, Disclosure, and Privacy Policy
  • Notebooking
  • Lapbooking
  • Homeschool
    • Teaching Writing
    • Homeschooling an Only Child
    • Homeschooling Middle School
    • Homeschool for High School
    • Curriculum Reviews
  • Charlotte Mason
    • Narration
    • Charlotte Mason Homeschooling Q & A
    • Artist Study
    • Composer Study
    • Living Math
    • Nature Study

Jimmie's Collage

lifestyle blog of a single mom who works from home

  • BUY THE BOOK: Notebooking Success
  • BUY THE BOOK: Essay Tune Up

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 […]

Filed Under: Charlotte Mason Homeschooling, living books Tagged With: atlas, encyclopedia, living books, reference

Poetic Devices Reference Minibook

January 14, 2010 By Jimmie Quick 11 Comments

Please see an update to this post at Poetic Devices and Figures of Speech Free Printable Mini-posters. I created brand new printables for this! Inside our Reference Organizer, you may have noticed the I made a reference minibook of figures of speech or poetic devices. I used a PDF printable I found at Katie Jensen’s […]

Filed Under: language arts Tagged With: minibook, poetry, reference

Expanding the Mini-office

January 14, 2010 By Jimmie Quick 10 Comments

A mini-office used to be enough. But now that Sprite is in middle school, our reference needs are growing. That’s really an exciting thing because it means that she’s doing more independent learning and that her base of knowledge is growing. We’ve graduated up to this on the homeschool table. Of course, the pens, colored […]

Filed Under: middle school Tagged With: middle school, mini-office, reference

Welcome!

jimmie lanley
So glad you clicked over. You are welcome here. I'm Jimmie, a single, work from home mom of one teen.

Get This One FREE!

My books

Notebooking Success eBook
Copyright © 2016