I think it’s been over two years since our kids have seen snow, so when some friends said they were renting a cabin for the weekend and invited us up to Big Bear in the San Bernardino National Forest, we didn’t think twice. For Orange County folk Big Bear is a quick two hour jaunt […]
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I discovered a link to this youtube video of Kent Risley as I was copying my daughter’s YR2 poetry from this page on Ambleside Online tonight. His story about the poem is painfully touching, and his recitation of it brings life and expression to it in ways you’d never imagine just reading the words on
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This is our second year of implementing recitation with our children, ranging in age from five to nine. Some of the selections we have used are: Caterpillar by Christina Rosetti, The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Lullaby by Edith Nesbit, Trees by Joyce Kilmer, 1st Corinthians 13, and Joy to the World. In that time,
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