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Snakes in Ireland – on composition lessons

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More enormous relief to teachers, a self-sacrificing and greatly overburdened class can be found in a new post by Dr. Jennifer Spencer of Childlight who admits she wrestled with CM’s assertions on composition for many years. You can read about her findings and conclusions in her latest blog post over at Childlight here: http://childlightusa.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/the-due-use-of-books-by-dr-jennifer-spencer/

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The Great Need of Imagination

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I am coming rather late to this treasure of a Parent’s Review article – Imagination as a Powerful Factor in a Well-balanced Mind by E.A. Parish – 98 years late to be exact! More recently, within CM circles it seems to have made its rounds with Nancy Kelly of Sage Parnassus leading a session by

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The Gift of Time

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One of my favorite things about reading Robinson Crusoe was his thoughtful reflections on what was happening in his life. The author gave us a window into the thought process in Crusoe’s mind as his character is forged through circumstances hand placed in his life by God Himself. I was reminded of this today as

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Over in the Meadow

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This past week we had a long drive home from the Tar Pits in LA so I decided to listen to an audio I’d downloaded to my ipod called “Making the Heart Sing With Recitation” by Bonnie Buckingham. She had a lot of good things to say on there. My 8yo daughter was the only

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Book of Centuries

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One of the classes offered at the Childlight Conference we attended earlier this year was a class called “Paper Trails, CM Ways with Student Work” by Laurie Bestaver. The description of the class followed… You know about the nature notebook but what is a “fortitude list,” “a commonplace,” a “century chart?”… Kristine and I agreed

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Broad River Greenway

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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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