This past school year, parents of 5th graders at our local elementary school — including Adam and me — were invited to a Zoom call wherein we could preview the 5th grade puberty lesson. The school nurse would be teaching the material at a later date, and parents had the […]
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Our homeschool curriculum tracks fairly closely with the recommendations in The Well-Trained Mind. My favorite thing about this approach is what Karen Glass would call its “synthetic” nature — presenting related ideas across curricular areas and learning with multiple modalities. Each year, the history and literature curricula focus on 1 […]
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes