We are currently reading ‘The Golden Touch’, the story of King Midas in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s A Wonder Book at bedtime in hopes of being able to enjoy most of the YR2 ‘free reads’ (books read at any pace, any time, without narration; described as “books no child should miss”). From the looks of it and […]
I read today a brief snippet about a woman named Madame Guyon, who was persecuted for her faith and imprisoned in a dungeon lit only by a candle at mealtimes. My ‘struggles’ faded by the wayside and my heart was gripped by her obedient words in this poem she wrote of her experience: A little
The 239th Carnival of Homeschooling is up at The Common Room! (One of my favorite blogs to read btw) The theme is ‘The History of Homeschooling in America’. I think you’ll enjoy this one 🙂 If you’re not familiar with The Carnival of Homeschooling, you can read about it here. ENJOY!
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Euclid in the School of Athens, Raphael Sanzio Some call it an ‘aha’ moment. I can’t think of it as anything other than Divine Providence. In any case, it happened today after finding this gem of a Parent’s Review Article entitled “Home Arithmetic” by Ms. May Everest Boole, written for our discovery no less than
On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt, 1868, Claude Monet I first heard of an ‘sequential, integrated curriculum’ earlier this year when I read an article titled, Is Sequencing and Ordering the Curriculum Important for Scaffolding Learning? by Dr. Carol Smith in a back issue of the Winter 2007 Parents Review. The article is long
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Weather reports predicted 90 degrees for our nature study day today. Enough heat to sway our plans to meet up at the botanical preserve. So some of us headed to a more shady trail while we opted for the beach. Having been the first week of summer heat after a long bout of June gloom,
His thoughts are wandering on forbidden pleasure, to the hindrance of his work; he pulls himself up, and deliberately fixes his attention on those incentives which have most power to make him work, the leisure and pleasure which follow honest labour, the duty which binds him to the fulfilling of his task. His thoughts run
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We saw this very unusual looking wasp today at the Niguel Botanical Preserve. The picture is not mine, unfortunately, I didn’t have a camera with me. © Copyright John Ascher, 2006-2010 It was one of those “What on earth is that!?!” sightings. Its thread-like waist was just so unusual, I stopped to get a closer
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On the last night of our trip at the Childlight Conference, many of us gathered at the Broad River Greenway for a nature hike and listened to Janet Pressley play her awesome blues in an old cabin in the humid air, watching (and of course catching) fireflies. I wish I could have bottled a few
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