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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This is our growing collection of all things made by yarn, hook and needle. The amigurumi are made by me. Totoro and chibi totoro from a couple years ago – we love the movie and visited the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, my mother’s home town, a few years ago. Did you know I’m half Japanese?
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After hours of preparation by busy hands it was finally time for our 2nd Annual Holiday Handicraft Fair! Here are links to our past Handicraft Fairs: Jun 2011Dec 2011May 2012 And here are pictures from our prep and today’s Handicraft Fair:
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My 10 yo YR5 daughter and I read Shakespeare and Plutarch on Fridays. We’re reading The Merchant of Venice which is a story we both know from having read it in the Nesbit version once when she was in YR3 and also just last week again as I read it to my YR3 son. What’s
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“Ugh…” is the typical reaction we have when we see a lot of kelp in the water at the beach. It sloshes around in the waves and wraps onto your legs and sits on the shore in stinky piles attracting millions of annoying flies. Lately I’ve felt differently. Which made me wonder: What is it
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I am an optimist. I thought my inspiring speech to my boys about all the immediate and long term benefits of learning a second language would keep them energized for the rest of the semester: it lasted two weeks. After two more weeks, my oldest son informed me, “I’m not going to thank you for
My 9yo daughter’s bag that we got at the $1 spot at Target that lasted over a year tore so she asked if she could make a bag like her friend Taylor’s. I did a Google search and showed her some pictures and she found one she liked. It took only 2 yards of fabric
Inspired by a recent blog post over at Ambleside Reflections, our topic of discussion at this month’s meeting was JOY. Regarding joy, Charlotte Mason wrote: The happiness of the child is the condition of his progress; that his lessons should be joyous, and that occasions of friction in the schoolroom are greatly to be deprecated.
Our pastor came to Romans 12:13 a couple of weeks ago and since that message, everyone in the church has been doing a lot more inviting each other to dinner! We were at one of those dinners just last week at the home of a homeschooling family from our church and had such a great
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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,