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Hello there!  Nadene here. I’m so glad that you have popped over to meet me. 

I am a South African farmer’s wife, mom to 5 now adult children, and a granny to several gorgeous grandchildren.

I am a former senior primary school teacher with 10 years of teaching experience, teaching English, History, Geography and Art, and specializing in remedial and gifted education.

As a veteran homeschool teacher, I loved homeschooling my three daughters from toddler to graduation. In our more than 23 years of homeschooling, we mostly used literature-based curriculums following Charlotte Mason’s principles.

We have used and re-used several Sonlight curriculums, and our wonderful, literature-based South African History curriculums “Footprints On Our Land” and “Footprints Into 21st Century“. I also tailor-made eclectic curriculums and created my own literature-based unit studies.

For high school and matric, we used a variety of curriculums including Impak/Delta Education for NSC matric, as well as Cambridge Education and GED.

We live on a remote mountain farm in the Klein Karoo, South Africa and farm with free-range livestock and fruit orchards, and we grow and sell lucerne trees, an excellent food-producing grazing tree, in our family business, Lucerne Tree Farm. 

I enjoy homesteading; making cheeses, baking sourdough breads and making preserves.  I love being creative and I enjoy sketching, painting, sewing, knitting, gardening and doing creative projects at home.  

I am a  born-again Jew who desires to live my life in gratitude, service and to bring glory to my saviour, Jesus Christ.  

So, why do I write this blog?

I started Practical Pages in 2009, sharing our homeschool experiences and free pages. I love to inspire, encourage and equip homeschool parents with practical tips, projects, plans, free pages, art ideas and quality educational packages. I have been so blessed and so ~ 

The Lord says, “Freely you have received, freely give.”

My free downloads are for your personal use only.  Please support me and order professional-quality eBooks and downloads  on my Packages Page.  I humbly ask that you respect my copyright.  No content may be shared, reproduced, stored, forwarded, sold or distributed without my consent.

I would love to hear from you.  Please share what you have loved or enjoyed on my blog in the comments section, or write to me in the contact form below with any concerns or difficulties you may have and I will do my best to answer and assist however I can.

Thanks for visiting me here.  Please click to subscribe to Practical Pages.  You can follow me on Facebook and see some of my personal art & creative projects and daily life on Instagram.

Blessings and grace, Nadene

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