2022 – Homeschool Family Life

Free Christmas Planner

Stephie / 8 November 2022

Every year I update The NZ Homeschooler’s Christmas Planner. It’s free, you don’t need to give your email address in payment. You […]

Stephie / 12 August 2022

Reading good books to appreciative children has to be one of the great simple pleasures of life. Andrew Carnegie knew

Stephie / 21 July 2022

The John Newbery Medal was named for the eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. He was born in 1713, was apprenticed

Stephie / 12 June 2022

Last month, I wrote about Randolph Caldecott, the children’s picture book artist, born in Chester in northwest England in 1846.

Stephie / 12 May 2022

When my favourite three-year-old brought me a new picture book to read to her I noticed that it had a

Stephie / 10 May 2022

A Year of Twentieth Century Literature : Reviews and Chats about Twentieth Century Novels and Memoirs. I have just collated

Stephie / 12 April 2022

Last weekend I spoke at a women’s retreat about the richness of everyday life in a homeschooling family, looking at

Stephie / 24 March 2022

I was thrilled by an article I read online recently. The photos showed a startlingly beautiful Roman mosaic dating from

Stephie / 3 March 2022

When someone starts thinking about homeschooling it’s tempting to consider how to reproduce what goes on in school. The reason

Stephie / 26 February 2022

I was reading Charlotte Mason’s “School Education,” (Vol. 3) this week and came across this little piece which gave me