Did you know? The moderators over at the AmblesidOnline Yahoo groups are starting a new series, CM 101, where they will be posting a series of messages that cover the basics of CM. Many of the list members will be available to answer questions as well as link to their helpful blog posts so head […]
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My images from our nature outings frequently pile up so rather than waiting for a blog topic to post them, I think I’ll just start posting them as Nature Finds with the date to simplify things. Speaking of nature, if you haven’t seen this article on sand over at Circe, it’s fascinating; you won’t want
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Ambleside Online’s Composer for the 2011/12 school year’s second term is Felix Mendelssohn. Portrait of Mendelssohn by James Warren Childe From AO’s composer schedule, here are the selections, including his Octet, which, according to Wikipedia, was composed when he was only sixteen years old: 2011-2012 TERM 2 (This term’s artist is Albert Bierstadt, landscape) Felix
How do we teach our children about the world around us? In our efforts to ensure that they gain knowledge, do we hasten to sit our children in front of what they must learn, have them draw and label all the parts of it, and then explain at length how such and such part enables
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