This is my messy morning schedule I scribbled out while I was at the beach Thursday. Cindy Rollins’ talk at the AO At Home Conference in Indiana this summer about her precious moments with the kids in the mornings re-inspired me to look at my scheduling again. We’re starting school Wednesday this week and spreading […]
Our youngest son is now four and as I revisit Charlotte Mason’s ideas on habit training, or maybe some collectively gathered ideas on training and educating, I’ve come to realize the importance of the flip side of habit training – the side that maybe we don’t consider often enough. I think for the most part,
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Have you found a perfect schedule yet? We have. Not to say we won’t change our minds again, but this one seems to work for the kids’ growing independence and our simple straightforward way. Jeannette Tulis posted her version of it a while back and it was love at first sight. So simple, so basic,
My husband and I finally sat down and watched Les Miserable after hearing many mixed reviews about it. We loved it and blubbered ridiculously together. My favorite scene had to be Jean Valjean’s (Hugh Jackman) turmoil in the church after he is given the candlesticks. His moment of coming to terms with his sin and
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I have a backlog of photos from this month’s nature days so this will be more of a photolog than a blog post. Lots of interesting things to see! This is a firewheel flower my son found that had an unusual extra flower growing out of the side of it. This set of pictures is
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I recently heard a very liberating discovery dug up in the May 1914 edition of L’Umile Pianta. But before I mention it here’s part of Redeemer’s description of the ‘magazine’: In 1895 the House of Education Old Students’ Association was formed to provide current and ‘old’ students who were scattered abroad, opportunities to keep in
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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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Now that our fourth child is just over a year old and toddling around on his two fat wobbly legs which carry him to investigate whatever interests him in the moment, I am finding myself back in the throes of training once again. Just to name a few things that have been of interest to
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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
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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