Courtney, our local Classical Ed connection has been turning me on to audios over at Circe Institute, the latest being “Good to Great: Teaching Literature From Grammar to Rhetoric” by James Taylor, author of Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education, the book our group will be reading next. This is a talk that was issued […]
Reading Wind in the Willows for the second time around, I can’t help but wonder if I really ever did read this book before! I just don’t remember ever knowing how wonderful it truly is. I felt the same way about Winnie the Pooh when we picked up that old friend again. The language and
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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We read the Chapter on John Bunyan today in Trial and Triumph. Although we had read Pilgrim’s Progress over a two year period, I had never heard Bunyan’s story before. There was a lot that came to mind as we read through it. Bunyan had been a foul-mouthed tinker until one day a woman rebuked
If you haven’t read the last BOC post I did, you can find it here. Last week we had our Monthly Meeting on the topic of The Book of Centuries and I invited Shannon, a wonderful friend we met through the AO Yahoo groups. She attended one of our meetings a while back – drove
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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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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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As I’ve been focusing this past week on reading, spelling and writing and feeling a bit of the sting from comparing my kids’ progress in these areas to others their age (I should know better!!), I was glad to find the following section in Vol. 6 today. It reminded me to ‘major on the majors’.
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Having just finished The Little White Horse, we’ve concluded that Parables from Nature was in fact written by Marmaduke Scarlet, the dwarf-like cook who makes up for his want of height through his use of big words, Margaret Gatty is just his secret pen name. It was a wonderful jaunt through a magical place filled
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I confess, I don’t teach reading the CM way. When we were first getting started with homeschooling, a friend recommended the book The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading to me. I bought it without having a clue as to how to teach reading and used it with my oldest daughter and now with my