Ray's Arithmetic is a complete K-12 Math Curriculum in PDF format created by Joseph Ray during the Industrial Revolution. Joseph Ray was a collegue of William Holmes McGuffey. That name should ring a bell if you are familiar with the McGuffey Readers.…

The world of Winter Weeds . This is a part of the Winter Wednesday series at the Handbook of Nature Study . We went on a 2 mile nature walk (just happened to be on a Wednesday!) and we enjoyed looking for weeds. We also read Chapter 6, Winter Weeds, in Disco…

My boys participated in Sketch Tuesday , hosted by Barb at Harmony Art Mom . This weeks assignment, Trash Time , was to sketch something from your trash can. View the Trash Time Slideshow to see more sketches and see the new assignment for this week at t…

"He SPEAKS; He HEARS what he said; He DOES what he heard; He SEES what he did!" The Madsen Method , a method of instruction based on how our forefathers were taught and on 1915 literacy standards, is: “ a complete, fully scripted, evidence-based, …