The Mudflats is one of our favorite spots. Just look at all that wonderful mud! Not only that, it’s one of the rare places where fresh water meets salt water creating a very unique place for our kids to get in touch with things unique to this kind of ecosystem. And I do mean get […]
As I’ve been focusing this past week on reading, spelling and writing and feeling a bit of the sting from comparing my kids’ progress in these areas to others their age (I should know better!!), I was glad to find the following section in Vol. 6 today. It reminded me to ‘major on the majors’.
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As I mentioned in a post earlier this week, I’m transitioning my 9yo YR3 daughter to reading her own school books. She just finished reading Little House on the Prairie on her own and is already 8 chapters into On The Banks of Plum Creek. So she’s able to read, reading her schoolbooks though, that’s
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Having just finished The Little White Horse, we’ve concluded that Parables from Nature was in fact written by Marmaduke Scarlet, the dwarf-like cook who makes up for his want of height through his use of big words, Margaret Gatty is just his secret pen name. It was a wonderful jaunt through a magical place filled
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I confess, I don’t teach reading the CM way. When we were first getting started with homeschooling, a friend recommended the book The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading to me. I bought it without having a clue as to how to teach reading and used it with my oldest daughter and now with my
For anyone interested, here is a playlist for the Ambleside Online Term II composer Vivaldi over at Grooveshark: http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/playlist/Ao+Term+2+Vivaldi/42604578 I think we’ve all heard the most popular of the Four Seasons, but have you ever heard his beautiful chorale Gloria or any of his other concertos? They are just beautiful. In our home, we haven’t
My 9yo daughter and I read Chapter 76 of Our Island Story today. The Chapter talks about King James, successor to Queen Elizabeth, who wanted to be a despot and claimed ‘The King can do no wrong. What he does must be right and the people must obey and ask no questions.’ Portrait of James
Reading stories like the Little House Series, Caddie Woodlawn, Heidi, and Children of the New Forest, it’s difficult not to want to experience nature with our children. To be somewhere wild where there is adventure, beauty, spontaneity and freedom to explore.Spending a few hours outdoors together as a family this past weekend, I couldn’t help
Inspired by a recent blog post over at Ambleside Reflections, our topic of discussion at this month’s meeting was JOY. Regarding joy, Charlotte Mason wrote: The happiness of the child is the condition of his progress; that his lessons should be joyous, and that occasions of friction in the schoolroom are greatly to be deprecated.
Someone once said that wisdom comes from two places: your own experience, or the experience of others. While my own experience seems to be the best teacher, it isn’t always the most painless. So when possible, I prefer to learn from the experience of others. If you’re anything like me, here are two discussions that
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