…is the best kind 🙂 We found these little Dees Hobbitses under a canopy of trees on nature day singing songses and asked them to recite them for us 🙂 Don’t you just love how they adopt the accent and all? And little sister in the lap… ♥ These boys listened to the audio version […]
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We spent the day under a thick marine layer that never burned off at the beach for nature study today. The kids didn’t seem to notice as they dove in, testing the current in the cold foamy ocean waves. (Shaw’s Cove, Laguna Beach – a not quite finished sketch!) Their more sensible Mothers sat on
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For sometimes when we wonder, we can make things begin to happen. ~Teacher in The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong Once or twice a year our little nature study group gathers at a coffee shop in the evening without the children to talk and plan through nature study locations, field trips and events
Alicia, one of our nature study group mothers, who moved away to New Mexico about a year ago came to visit recently. It was so nice to see her and her four adorable girls, it was just like she had never left. She joined us for our annual blackberry picking nature day and by the
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One of the most common questions new homeschooling Moms have is “What does a day look like?” I remember my stomach churning in knots the summer prior to my oldest starting Kindergarten. Everything I had read about the Charlotte Mason method resonated deeply with me – treating the child as a person, living books, not
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