https://firstheralds.com Catholic, Charlotte Mason Inspired, Family-Centered Homeschooling Mon, 05 Jul 2021 18:53:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 97951958 https://firstheralds.com/2017/08/06/beyond-the-book-of-centuries-the-century-chart-and-the-table-of-centuries/ https://firstheralds.com/2017/08/06/beyond-the-book-of-centuries-the-century-chart-and-the-table-of-centuries/#respond Mon, 07 Aug 2017 06:36:47 +0000 https://firstheralds.com/?p=2606 Our children encounter so very many people, places, and events when they are studying history. How are they to remember…

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The post How I Teach Writing to Very Young Children first appeared on FIRST HERALDS.]]> https://firstheralds.com/2016/02/08/how-i-teach-writing-to-very-young-children/feed/ 0 2557 https://firstheralds.com/2015/11/11/rhetoric-liberating-others-to-choose-the-good-part-4-in-stratford-caldecott-series/ https://firstheralds.com/2015/11/11/rhetoric-liberating-others-to-choose-the-good-part-4-in-stratford-caldecott-series/#respond Thu, 12 Nov 2015 04:51:45 +0000 https://firstheralds.com/?p=2532 In this (very irregular!) series, I’ve been considering Stratford Caldecott’s view of the trivium as he presents it in his…

The post Rhetoric: Liberating Others to Choose the Good (Part 4 in Stratford Caldecott Series) first appeared on FIRST HERALDS.]]> https://firstheralds.com/2015/11/11/rhetoric-liberating-others-to-choose-the-good-part-4-in-stratford-caldecott-series/feed/ 0 2532 https://firstheralds.com/2015/10/13/logic-finding-truth-and-order-in-the-universe-part-3-in-stratford-caldecott-series/ https://firstheralds.com/2015/10/13/logic-finding-truth-and-order-in-the-universe-part-3-in-stratford-caldecott-series/#comments Tue, 13 Oct 2015 20:01:47 +0000 https://firstheralds.com/?p=2498 In this third part in my series on Stratford Caldecott’s book Beauty in the Word, I’m going to look at Caldecott’s…

The post Logic: Finding Truth and Order in the Universe (Part 3 in Stratford Caldecott series) first appeared on FIRST HERALDS.]]> https://firstheralds.com/2015/10/13/logic-finding-truth-and-order-in-the-universe-part-3-in-stratford-caldecott-series/feed/ 1 2498 https://firstheralds.com/2015/10/08/great-easy-idea-to-motivate-your-homeschooled-kids-work-binders/ https://firstheralds.com/2015/10/08/great-easy-idea-to-motivate-your-homeschooled-kids-work-binders/#respond Thu, 08 Oct 2015 14:48:47 +0000 https://firstheralds.com/?p=2480 We’re humming along in the school year now and I can see clearly what is working well and what is…

The post Great EASY Idea to Motivate Your Homeschooled Kids: Work Binders first appeared on FIRST HERALDS.]]> https://firstheralds.com/2015/10/08/great-easy-idea-to-motivate-your-homeschooled-kids-work-binders/feed/ 0 2480 https://firstheralds.com/2015/09/26/at-the-feet-of-truth/ https://firstheralds.com/2015/09/26/at-the-feet-of-truth/#respond Sat, 26 Sep 2015 18:40:50 +0000 https://firstheralds.com/?p=2436 “At the feet of truth one must erect love; at the foundations, low in the ground, it will take root…

The post At the Feet of Truth first appeared on FIRST HERALDS.]]> https://firstheralds.com/2015/09/26/at-the-feet-of-truth/feed/ 0 2436 https://firstheralds.com/2015/09/23/grammar-as-remembering-part-2-in-stratford-caldecott-series/ https://firstheralds.com/2015/09/23/grammar-as-remembering-part-2-in-stratford-caldecott-series/#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2015 02:57:04 +0000 https://firstheralds.com/?p=2431   In my first post about Stratford Caldecott’s book Beauty in the Word: Rethinking the Foundations of Education, I stated his…

The post Grammar as Remembering (Part 2 in Stratford Caldecott series) first appeared on FIRST HERALDS.]]> https://firstheralds.com/2015/09/23/grammar-as-remembering-part-2-in-stratford-caldecott-series/feed/ 2 2431 https://firstheralds.com/2015/09/16/beauty-in-the-word-catholicism-and-charlotte-mason-a-series/ https://firstheralds.com/2015/09/16/beauty-in-the-word-catholicism-and-charlotte-mason-a-series/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2015 23:51:32 +0000 https://firstheralds.com/?p=2411 I’ve been devouring several books on education theory recently (Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education by James Taylor, Leisure: The Basis…

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