Saturday 1 April 2017

April Inspiration

The end of March and beginning of April have felt like Spring, perhaps my favourite season. It has even been warm enough for a picnic.

Yesterday, our home education group had a visit from Douglas Bond. He talked about the process of writing, answered questions and read from a couple of his books, including his latest release, Luther in Love which is a biographical novel about Martin and Katharina Luther.  Sadly, I failed to take any pictures of the day although it well attended and some families travelled a fair way to be there. Ossett Christian Bookshop stock Douglas Bond's books and have Luther in Love in stock. 

Tim Challies has started a new series about Christian men and their godly mothers. So far, there have been two installments about the mothers of John Newton and Hudston Taylor. Both have been encouraging reads for those of us in the trenches. I'm looking forward to more.

There is often discussion on home education forums about entry requirements to university. King's College, Cambridge has produced a page especially for home educated applicants.

Not before 7 has a post about creating a book club with loads of detail about different sorts of club and links to resources.

I love resource rich peeps into other people's home education and have been enjoying the Farmhouse Schoolhouse instagram for some time. Elsie has produced a description of a couple of weeks of her children's home education which is full of links and ideas. I do think that it is important when reading about other people's homes to remember that we have all been given different circumstances and that ideas that work well in another family aren't necessarily right for you.

We are looking forward to a break from formal bookwork over the next few weeks although that doesn't necessarily correspond to quiet!

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2 comments:

  1. Happy spring! Thanks for the info about the new Luther book. So exciting that you could meet the author! And that link about King's College, that just got my imagination going. Thank you!

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    1. Yes, we really enjoyed meeting Douglas Bond. It was a very popular session.

      I see you have explored more of the King's College links. We use Nrich maths, from time to time, as it has so many different levels and encourages mathematical thinking. We haven't used it recently though so thank you for reminding me!

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