New for us this year (AmblesideOnline YR7) is Adventures with a Microscope. Today, our daughter chose the chapter on how the fly walks on the ceiling. Instructions are to catch a house fly in a jar and use chloroform to kill it. We didn’t have any chloroform so she caught one and we covered the […]
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Here are some nature journal entries from YR6 as we attempt to transition to Special Studies this year. Whether we are doing what CM truly intended or not, is hard to know. And I sometimes have to squelch the comparison bug that peers its ugly head when I see what others are doing. But as I read
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If you’ve been following my posts at all, you know we’ve been exploring marine invertebrates in the kelp. Well, for my birthday, my family gave me a new microscope and life just hasn’t been the same. Here’s one of the amazing things we discovered under the microscope, appropriately set to Chopin of course 🙂 Enjoy!
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What do you think of these quotes about teaching the scientific method? “I have been told, on good authority, that the essence of scientific method is never formulated in lectures addressed to, or text-books intended for, young teachers. …what is most necessary for the children to learn is not what is the last new theory
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In case you missed Part I, you can find it here. Since that post, I was able to obtain a copy of The Changing Year by F.M. Haines, the book mentioned by Charlotte Mason in Vol. 6 and her programmes as an aid to the “great deal of out-of-door work” her students did in a
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Jeanne and her daughter Jemimah arrived from Australia today for a brief visit before heading off cross country to visit other AO friends. Here’s the wildest creature our girls found today while playing in the sand at the beach!
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You can find Part II here: http://livingcminca.blogspot.com/2013/07/choose-some-special-study-part-ii.html In describing her Science curriculum in Volume 6, Towards a Philosophy of Education, Charlotte Mason wrote: They are expected to do a great deal of out-of-door work in which they are assisted by The Changing Year, admirable month by month studies of what is to be seen out-of-doors.
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Our friend’s 9 year old daughter noticed this holdfast at the beach today. She also found the handy big red bucket floating in the ocean 🙂 Looking closer at the holdfast, we found some pretty amazing things… Brittle Stars Lots of brittle stars 🙂 Can you tell what this is? Here’s a video of it.
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How contrary to popular educational methods would be the idea of leaving a child’s question unanswered; worse yet, leaving them to form wrong opinions? Well it seems that it was no less absurd 115 years ago based on a Parent’s Review article titled Elementary Science-Teaching by one Mary Everest Boole. But it is, in fact,
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From Science and Religion, part 3by Mrs. Dowson, L.R.C.P. & S., I.Volume 11, 1900, pgs. 13-18 …there is good work to be done in showing the confusion of thought underlying a belief that science or anything else can adequately interpret the meaning of the higher reality in terms of the lower. Dr. Ward says that
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