Podcast: Read-Aloud Revival

Nature study can be an intimidating subject that carries a lot of expectations in the homeschooling world. It’s something we want to do, but it can get pushed to the side because we don’t always have the energy to tramp around the woods with a watercolor

Today, I’m answering listeners’ questions about their kids’ reading habits, from bouncing from book to book to getting stuck in a genre rut, and more.

Find out what we’re reading next, and get the skinny on why we’ve chosen the books we did.

I’ve invited Kortney Garrison and Kara Anderson from the RAR team to chat with me about a favorite book when it comes to essentializing.

We’ve been talking and thinking about the book Essentialism by Greg McKeown a lot here at Read Aloud Revival, espec

Today, we’re talking about what makes The Long Winter so gripping and so beloved, as well as how we handle problematic texts with our kids and why I believe that scenes and language we may find troubling aren’t reasons to leave great books on the shelf.

This year, let’s fall in love with our ordinary, bookish, homeschooling lives.

During Jolabokaflod, you gift members of your family with new books, and everyone drinks hot cocoa and spends all of Christmas Eve reading.

Each new year, we think through all the homeschool curriculum we might want or need, and we pack it all in. It’s time to put some of it back.

The principles of Teaching from Rest apply no matter how old your kids are. The obstacles and challenges change, but the core stays the same.