It is hard to describe how incredibly satisfying it is when you make a new discovery. When a light of truth comes on as a result of your very own digging – it is nothing less than thrilling. I recently had just such a discovery. In YR4, we read both Poor Richard – a biography […]
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We know wisdom comes from God, scripture and good counsel. I’ve also heard someone put it this way: wisdom comes from two places – your mistakes, or the mistakes of others. I providentially landed on this MUST READ post over at The Common Room tonight. And I do prefer to learn from the mistakes of
With the next school year looming in the very near future, and an eldest daughter heading into YR4, I am scrambling to get my act together and figure out what all she is doing. For those of you who may not be familiar with AO YR4, there are several new things to become acquainted with:
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Last night I spent some time browsing child training articles and was reminded of how good it is to revisit these things at various stages of training my kids. One of the main issues I’m dealing with now is my 3 1/2 yo daughter who cries very loud and very intentionally when she is offended.
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I had hoped to post here about our monthly meeting topic of Rigor. Unfortunately, we were hit by the stomach flu and missed the discussion, which I heard was wonderful. We also had a dead rat, discovered by its lovely stench, that had been festering in the wall behind our downstairs bathroom removed this week.
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As I’ve been focusing this past week on reading, spelling and writing and feeling a bit of the sting from comparing my kids’ progress in these areas to others their age (I should know better!!), I was glad to find the following section in Vol. 6 today. It reminded me to ‘major on the majors’.
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My husband took this picture at the pumpkin patch the other day – I just love it. Everyone is looking at the camera, we’re all smiling – these are the moments we like to remember; the ones we love to share with everyone. The ones we frame and hang on our walls. Here’s the one
Okay, we don’t normally do narrations at bedtime. We usually reserve evenings for free reads and stories that may help them fall asleep, not something that they have to be so attentive to as to narrate afterwards. But we were getting behind in our Robin Hood reading last spring, and the day before I was
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After a summer of lax schedules, far more time with neighborhood kids than I would have preferred, and letting way too many incidents ‘slip by’ for the sake of a little computer or reading time, a nap, or a shower – our first week of school began. All of it by my own choosing, because…
We are currently reading ‘The Golden Touch’, the story of King Midas in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s A Wonder Book at bedtime in hopes of being able to enjoy most of the YR2 ‘free reads’ (books read at any pace, any time, without narration; described as “books no child should miss”). From the looks of it and