Homeschool Lesson Plan in 5 Minutes | Classical Education
Summary: Homeschool lesson plans should be imaginative and fun, so I'm going to inspire you in 5 minutes with a 'done-for-you' creative teaching idea. I’m your classical education coach, Diane Lockman, and I’m passionate about helping you become a better homeschool teacher. Now that my kids are adults, I encourage other moms and dads on the journey with simple, time-saving tips on classical lesson planning, teaching strategies, and college prep. After nearly 20 years, I’ve learned that all intellectual skills can be boiled down to teaching the child how to read, think, write, and speak. Here's to working smarter, not harder! #askdiane #homeschooling
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Recitation Embellishes Memorization in the Classical Model of Charlotte Mason Skill: Public Speaking | RECITATION I love tea parties with my daughter (who happens to live in London), so British scones delivered on blue and white English transferware plates with clotted cream and jam are particularly yummy! A plain scone (an unsweetened biscuit-like cake) is not nearly…
Charlotte Mason Assigned Poetry, Literature, & Scripture that Made the Child's Heart "Sing" Skill: Reading | MEMORIZATION Unlike today's public school philosophy of memory work where the child is expected to learn by rote unrelated facts to parrot back on a quiz, classical educators like Charlotte Mason believed there was more long-term, transformational value in memorizing whole passages of…
Charlotte Mason Expected Excellent Penmanship from Her Students. Do You? Skills: Reading & Writing | COPYWORK Copywork, penmanship, & handwriting...did Charlotte Mason know the difference? Yes, indeed! Do you? Let's define each noun, then discover a wee bit about the history of their usage: handwriting [n] is the act of writing with an instrument (pen, pencil, crayon,…
Charlotte Mason Believed Narration Prepared a Child for Self-Education Skill: Reading | NARRATION Like most British girls raised during the mid-1800's, Charlotte Mason received a classical education at home. Her mom and dad followed the ancient Greco-Roman "master-apprentice model" as they taught Charlotte how to read, think, write, and speak. She enjoyed education so much that she…
Teach Your Kid to Observe with this “Buggy” 5 Minute Homeschool Lesson Skill: Critical Thinking | Observation Homeschool kids need to learn how to pay close attention to details. Ancient, medieval, and colonial tutors didn’t confine their observations to a close reading of the text; they also taught their apprentices to perform a close look at…
How to Measure Slope Using Graphs & Coordinate Geometry SKILL: Thinking | Problem-Solving In today’s episode of the Ask Diane podcast, I’m going to share a homeschool Logic Lesson Plan (skill # 2 of the classical trivium) for measuring slope using coordinate geometry. We’re going to capitalize on what your child is already learning (or has learned) in his packaged math curriculum…
Do You Want to Improve Your Child’s Reading, Writing, and Speaking Skills? Author of the elementary series A History of US, Joy Hakim, argues that public school teachers spend so much time teaching strategies for reading and analyzing paragraphs that there is no longer enough classroom time for reading whole books! Hakim clearly prefers the…
Can You Customize the Classical Curriculum During High School? In late 2014, Stephen Donahue of Home School Hope asked if I would do an interview on classical homeschooling. To give you a little bit of context, Stephen is the dad of five kids (his oldest has just graduated homeschool high school), and after nearly 14…
Learning How to Articulate Speech With Tongue Twisters Skill: Public Speaking | Body Language In today’s 5 Minute Homeschool Lesson Plan podcast, I’m going to share a Rhetoric Lesson Plan for improving public speaking skills, particularly by practicing exact articulation and intentional verbal pacing. We’re going to learn how to warm up the tongue, lips,…
Here’s a Fun 3 Year Homeschool Plan to Help Your Kid Build a 1000-Word Vocabulary Bank When I first started homeschooling nearly 20 years ago, my first inclination was to teach new vocabulary using spelling word lists. Every day, my kids would pull out their prepackaged workbook to fill in the blank lines and activities. At the…
When Does Your Church Celebrate Advent & Christmas? When I was in my 30’s, I sang in the soprano section of my church choir. I remember hearing a friendly argument between my choir director, Leah Davis, and pastor, Steve Drury, about when to sing Christmas songs like “Away in a Manger” and “Joy to the…
Learning How to Punctuate Sentences Skill: Reading | Punctuation In today’s 5 Minute Homeschool Lesson Plan podcast, I’m going to share a Grammar Lesson Plan for improving reading skills, specifically how to punctuate sentences using the comma. The English language has 14 common punctuation marks; your child needs to master the meaning and proper usage of each symbol. Of…
Learning How to Draft Paragraphs for a Multiple-Source Science Essay SKILL: Writing | Essays In today’s 5 Minute Homeschool Lesson Plan podcast, I’m going to share a Rhetoric Lesson Plan for writing a multiple source essay. We going to use the work we already did in episode # 3, Outlining Key Ideas. In case you…
Learning How to Outline Key Ideas for a Multiple-Source Science Essay SKILL: Writing | Note-Taking In today’s Ask Diane Homeschool Lesson Plan podcast, I’m going to share a Rhetoric Lesson Plan (skill # 3 of the classical trivium) that focuses on the skill set called note-taking. Note-taking is an essential writing skill that your teen is going to need…
How to Teach Narrative Journaling In today’s Ask Diane podcast, I’m going to show you a simple way to piggy back two skills, reading and writing. First you’re going to teach your child how to NARRATE, a reading skill. As your child practices narrating, you’ll demonstrate a writing skill, JOURNALING. You can use this homeschool…
