Goss Homeschool Academy

As we prepared for December by finishing our Term 1 exams, I decided that we would join many others in a "December Term" for our homeschool!  I've compiled resources that we've enjoyed so far if you also want to plan out a similar schedule for the coming weeks!!! Literature Stories I went to the library and borrowed 3 beautiful old anthologies so we have something in print, but there are some great free resources online!  There is a treasure in these old stories and the language used brings warmth and comfort during our modern age of commercialism! -Little Folks Christmas Stories and Plays -The Children's Book of Christmas  -Christmas Stories  -The Little Big Book of Christmas  Artist Study This is a little different because it's not a specific artist, but art prints that were painted by CHILDREN!!!  Edmund Dulac wrote an introduction to the volume that you can read here.   I think the prints are just gorgeous! Composer Study We ar...

I have been enjoying some Christmas reading to create a "December term" in our school curriculum this month! We are continuing our math, copywork, and larger literary works (Little House series, Water Babies, Heidi, Dr. Doolittle) but we are putting history, natural history, and geography on pause while we read some amazing literature from the past! As I was reading "Christmas-tide" by Elizabeth Harrison I just had to copy this chapter into a blog post so you all could read the advice given to parents in 1902! -RaeAnna The Christmas season is the season in which the joy of giving should be so much greater than that of receiving, that the child, through his own experiences, is prepared somewhat to comprehend that great truth, "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son. ' ' For weeks beforehand the mother can lay her plans by means of which each child in the family  may be led to make something, or may do without something, or...