Some fun and interesting poems found scribbled in a child’s notebook… The Fat Cat There was a fat catwho found a hat right inthe middle of the street.He picked it up witha good enough pluck to pickup an overweight horse! That horse neighed untilhe was bade to dancewith an Irish jade And that fat cat […]
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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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Welcome to the Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival! And thanks for joining us all the way out in California this time where we are going to talk about Poetry, a subject near and dear to many a Charlotte Masoner’s heart! If there’s anything we have learned through implementing the Charlotte Mason method, it is that words
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My daughter read Longfellow this past week, which she hadn’t been too enthused about because the poems are longer and of a more serious tone than those of A.A. Milne, Christina Rosetti, James Whitcomb Riley, Eugene Field and others from previous years. Precisely why they are very much up my alley – I particularly loved
Kristine framed this poem for me for my baby shower last night.It was one of our favorite poems from YR2, one of those things that just warms a Mother’s heart. Enjoy! Pittypat and Tippytoeby Eugene Field All day long they come and goPittypat and Tippytoe;Footprints up and down the hall,Playthings scattered on the floor,Finger-marks along
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Even though it’s still February, Early March is here in California. I thought it was just me, but a friend confirmed it when she was talking to me about the flowers at the Niguel Botanical Preserve, the birds singing, the caterpillars crawling… it reminded me of one of my favorite blog posts about the awakening
We read the first few lines of Caddie’s Recitation tonight at bedtime… A traveller through a dusty road strewed acorns on the lea;And one took root and sprouted up, and grew into a tree. I had to learn the rest, so I looked it up and found this poem that I just loved: Small Beginningsby
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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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I read today a brief snippet about a woman named Madame Guyon, who was persecuted for her faith and imprisoned in a dungeon lit only by a candle at mealtimes. My ‘struggles’ faded by the wayside and my heart was gripped by her obedient words in this poem she wrote of her experience: A little
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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