Goss Homeschool Academy

Two years ago I taught a Tennessee history class to 4-6 grade boys so my son would have the experience of learning state history with friends and we could check out fun field trip locations to make that history come alive! I blogged about my resources here and have an outline of a curriculum you could use with your family! Now that my daughter is 4th grade, I wanted to give her the same experience but format it in a way that she and her friends would enjoy a kind of "living history" by learning crafts that illustrate the time period of history. Add in American girls and the historical fiction stories and we have a winner of a class! I hope this post is inspirational to you and you can find that you have a schedule that works well for you! For our family, we scheduled 5 weeks of lessons in the spring and 5 weeks of lessons in the fall. You could easily spread out these lessons to last many more weeks! I do send parents recommended links and videos to watch at home in order to...

I am reflecting on the providence of God through the past 6+ years of homeschooling my children and feeling so thankful for the consistency of my friends that meet with me each month to discuss Charlotte Mason's writings. I know I've written in a few places about the full cycle of homeschooling in my life, but I thought I would make one post that has links to each volume that we studied and my own journey on this road. In 1985, my mom was still a new Christian. She and my dad found the Lord not long after they settled down together in Flint, MI in 1980. They were discipled and loved on by an amazing church and had the zeal and love for God that sought His will for their lives. In 1985 my mom had me (age 5) my brother (age 2) and was expecting my youngest brother that would be born in January 1986. The schools around us were not the best and my parents didn't have the money for private schools. My mom told me that the moments leading up to my kindergarten year made her nervo...