It's June...

so it must be time to start planning for next school year! I've started this blog to organize my thoughts and keep a journal of our homeschooling. I've been reading a lot of Chesterton lately and I want my boys to have, not an education like Chesterton's exactly, but an education where they are prepared to read Chesterton and be able to assimilate his insights, commonsense, and absolute love for the Catholic faith. I don't know what kind of education Chesterton would have wanted for his children if he had had any but I assume his wife, Francis, would have had something very Charlotte Mason-y in mind. My own school is going to center around Latin studies because looking back over the past year Latin is the subject that really stands out as a success and in ways I never anticipated. I started it because my oldest daughter told me that Latin and unit multipliers were the only two things she learned in school that were useful in college (she's a nurse) and I had the DVDs for Latina Christiana and thought I might as well use them. But the discipline that a serious study of Latin required carried over into all the other subjects and even into the running of our home which was becoming overrun with boy clutter and dust. It's still cluttered and dusty just not soooo very bad as before! Anyway, this is going to be my musing space and this post from the Bookworm is going to be my guide.