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Field Notes from the Hearth

Field Notes from the Hearth

The most reliable teaching hour in our house is not scheduled anywhere: it is the twenty minutes by the hearth after dinner.

No worksheet, no correction, just reading aloud and talking about what was read. It has done more for her vocabulary than any workbook we have tried.

We are keeping it exactly as unstructured as it started, on purpose.

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Above and Beyond the Syllabus
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Above and Beyond the Syllabus

Why our reading list starts where the standard curriculum stops, and what that has meant for the first month.

First Declension Week
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First Declension Week

A slate, a chalk stub, and the week Latin stopped being an abstraction and became a game she wanted to win.

The Boat That Taught Buoyancy
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The Boat That Taught Buoyancy

A half-built toy boat, three failed hulls, and a lesson in displacement no worksheet could have delivered.

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