A kindness is like a flower that has bloomed upon you unawares, and to be on the watch for such flowers adds very much to our joy in other people, as well as to the happy sense of being loved and cared for. ~Charlotte Mason, Vol. 4, p.109 For all the books we’ve read to […]
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Frescoe of Santa Maria Novella Grab a cup of tea and make sure you have some time carved out before you dig into this one – there’s a lot of reading! Starting with an article by Aimee Natal titled “Charlotte Mason: For Whose Sake?” in which she wrote: After studying Charlotte Mason’s six volumes, a
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Someone recently asked a question about Nature Study in the AO Yahoo group and after looking into it more, I posted a response, which I’d like to post here for the sake of sharing and also to be able to refer back to again in the future. I don’t know that my answer is ‘correct’
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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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After all, what is the chief sign of growing old? Is it not the feeling that we know all there is to be known? It is not years which make people old; it is ruts, and limitation of interests. When we no longer care about anything except our own interests, we are then old, it
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It is hard to describe how incredibly satisfying it is when you make a new discovery. When a light of truth comes on as a result of your very own digging – it is nothing less than thrilling. I recently had just such a discovery. In YR4, we read both Poor Richard – a biography
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As I was browsing through The Magic Catalog of Gutenberg E-Books on my Kindle for Christmas books to download, I came across the name ‘John Muir’. John Muir, 1912, courtesy of Wikipedia I’m embarrassed to say I’ve lived in California for almost twenty years and the only thing I knew about him is that he