I heard Leslie Noelani Laurio just finished working on a Modern translation of John Ruskin’s Sesame and Lilies, a YR10 AmblesideOnline Book. I’d never heard of it so I downloaded it and nosing through, came across this interesting suggestion of his and thought it worth sharing: Now, in order to deal with words rightly, this […]
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Before we started Term 2 of YR5 I heard from several people that the Biography option A Passion for the Impossible: The Life of Lilias Trotter was incredibly dry and uninteresting. I had never heard the name before and had no opinion of her book except that the pictures of her were lovely and my
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I don’t know what it is like teaching children with learning disabilities aside from what I have read here and there on the AmblesideOnline Yahoo Groups and Tammy Glaser’s blog Aut-2B-Home in Carolina. I think I have even heard of a teacher who was attempting to teach a mixed CM class of multiple ages and
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Have you heard? AmblesideOnline is in the process of transitioning to a new forum community! Previously, the hub of AO’s curriculum support was their Yahoo group, now they have put together a full fledged forum where there is room for conversation to expand beyond curriculum support. The forum is organized by Form (School Year) and
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We’ve completed reading through Henry V, our first Shakespeare play! Well, we’d read many of his plays in story form in Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare, which I’m now re-reading with my 8yo son, but this was our first ‘real’ play in full Shakespeare language. Here’s a list of the Lamb’s tales we read over the
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With the next school year looming in the very near future, and an eldest daughter heading into YR4, I am scrambling to get my act together and figure out what all she is doing. For those of you who may not be familiar with AO YR4, there are several new things to become acquainted with:
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My daughter read Longfellow this past week, which she hadn’t been too enthused about because the poems are longer and of a more serious tone than those of A.A. Milne, Christina Rosetti, James Whitcomb Riley, Eugene Field and others from previous years. Precisely why they are very much up my alley – I particularly loved
I heard this quote at a business training seminar years ago… No one waxes a rented car The speaker was making a point about the difference between employee mentality and business owner mentality; that, generally speaking, people care more for something, in this case a business, when they are the ones who own it. What
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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
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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