Our dear friend Isabella from South Africa, who has the most delicious South African accent, who has spontaneously brought us dinner several times – months after we’d had our baby, bless her! – who has had us for tea, rooibos of course, and home-made scones with whipped cream – oh, she’s a lovely friend to […]
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My latest absorption… Here’s the book that shows you how. If you need additional help, I’m sure YouTube has plenty of tutorials on every stitch in the book. These could be hung on the wall as is or framed and given as gifts, you could make Christmas tree decorations, aprons, add embroidery to a plain
Some time ago, I read about a site called Heritage History, it must have been a discussion over on the AO list. Interested to see what they had, I visited the site and found it a valuable resource, so I added a link to it from our Charlotte Mason social network (www.charlottemasoneducation.ning.com). Then last month,
Let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. ~James 1:19-20 Do you ever lose sight of the person that your child is in the process of training them? Day in, day out, do this, don’t do that… it’s
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Here are #3 and 4 and last month’s AO folk song 🙂 Why do we teach folk songs? What is the purpose? Is it to open up a window into the life of another in a distant time and place? Is it to study the music of the common folk and its impact in their
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California private homeschoolers it’s time to file your annual affidavit. The deadline is October 15th. You’ll find detailed instructions and a link to the form here: http://www.hslda.org/hs/state/ca/affidavit/AffidavitInstructions.asp
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We went to the LA County Fair a couple weeks back and they had the greatest little area called Heritage Square or Heritage something-a-ruther and it was full of handcrafts for the kids. We discovered enough handcrafts there to last the kids through the winter! Here’s a little rag doll made from strips of left
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And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true sense of things, they will find deliverance from sin a much greater blessing than deliverance from affliction. ~Daniel Defoe, The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe This was the last line we read for school
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We headed to the Fullerton Arboretum this past week for Nature Study. There were orchards with ripening fruit an Ombu tree a shady creek with freshwater clams! and rocks for baby boys to go ‘kerplunk’ and cool water for darling big sisters to dip their baby brothers’ feet in and bamboo shoots to delight little
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