The kids have been reciting pretty consistently once a month at nature study since they began in YR1. They pick their own every month and recite it, I’ve made it a requirement, but beyond that, we haven’t done much else with it so there isn’t much to learn from us, but there’s an interesting article called […]
Have you found a perfect schedule yet? We have. Not to say we won’t change our minds again, but this one seems to work for the kids’ growing independence and our simple straightforward way. Jeannette Tulis posted her version of it a while back and it was love at first sight. So simple, so basic,
If you’ve been following my posts at all, you know we’ve been exploring marine invertebrates in the kelp. Well, for my birthday, my family gave me a new microscope and life just hasn’t been the same. Here’s one of the amazing things we discovered under the microscope, appropriately set to Chopin of course 🙂 Enjoy!
Microscopic Tube Snails (Spirorbis sp.) to Chopin Read More »
Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley, 1778
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Churchill’s marriage to Clementine, the changing view of a man’s marriage as relevant to his quality of character and ability to lead, and 1 Timothy 3 all came up on our couch today, turning our wheels of thought as she knit her leg warmers and the laundry remained piled high. AO YR6
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Here are some samples of YR5/YR6 written narrations from the past calendar year. There are spelling errors, but for the sake of focusing on the composition I’m correcting them as I type. The grammar I’m leaving as is. I imagine these are shorter than the average written narrations at this age, but in a composition
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What could be better than a day at the aquarium? A washed up hunk of kelp on the beach! All of the following creatures were found hiding in the kelp. You’ll never look at kelp on the beach the same way again 🙂 anemone nudibranch something orange a brittle star spit out anemone some kind
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What do you think of these quotes about teaching the scientific method? “I have been told, on good authority, that the essence of scientific method is never formulated in lectures addressed to, or text-books intended for, young teachers. …what is most necessary for the children to learn is not what is the last new theory
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What do you suppose these are? I came across them in the garden. Look closer… At first I thought they were empty egg casings of some bug that hatched out. But, they have legs, which I thought may mean it was a molt of some sort, but that perfectly round hole… a molt wouldn’t look
Nature Mystery Solved 09/04/13 Read More »
Copywork first, letter for letter, then Transcription around age seven or eight; word for word, an introduction to spelling, seeing entire words in their minds as they copy and write whole words in place of individual letters at a time, then Dictation. At eight or nine years old, a child prepares a paragraph, older children
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