By Julianna Dotten

I have fond memories from my childhood of getting up in front of our homeschool classroom (i.e. my three younger siblings) to read the day’s discoveries from my Learning Journal. Of course, there were days when the journals read nothing more than “Got up. Ate breakfast. Learned fractions.” (Did I get my three sentences in?) But over time, the journal became a natural way to process not merely events but ideas. It seemed like the mere act of putting pen to paper opened whole new connections in my mind, new ideas that began to form from the experiences of the day, or perhaps a recent history lesson. Read More …