The ability to think critically and analytically then confidently reach their own conclusion is one of my main homeschooling goals for the children. We learn lots of history (and that's great). But my desire is to use history to teach the children more transferable skills, rather than simple knowledge. I want them to think, hypothesise, predict, problem solve and support…
Category: Historical Discussions
Historical Discussions in Your Homeschool
Education is a funny thing, meaning different things to different people. We are in a strong position as home schoolers to educate our children with our family goals in mind. I've said it before, but I don't want the children to simply learn facts. Ideally, I'd like to see them learning from the lives of…
Crusades: Pope Urban’s Speech – Part Two
For part one see here At the end of the week it was our plan to dress up and conduct our own Council at Clermont. Each of the children would have a chance to recite some of Urban's speech either verbatim or in their own words. The whole event would be full of propaganda, one…