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 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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If you haven’t read the last BOC post I did, you can find it here. Last week we had our Monthly Meeting on the topic of The Book of Centuries and I invited Shannon, a wonderful friend we met through the AO Yahoo groups. She attended one of our meetings a while back – drove
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Object-lessons should be incidental; and this is where the family enjoys so great an advantage over the school. It is almost impossible that the school should give any but set lessons; but this sort of teaching in the family falls in with the occurrence of the object. The child who finds that wonderful and beautiful
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We recently borrowed The Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown from the library for my two year old. There is a lot for little ones to find as you read it to them… Here’s another one of our favorite farm books. If you don’t have it already, just buy it. You’ll love it and
Nature teaches so gently, so gradually, so persistently, that he is never overdone, but goes on gathering little stores of knowledge about whatever comes before him. ~Charlotte Mason We are blessed to have a Charlotte Mason group here in Southern California. From what I understand, we are a rare breed. I often find myself feeling
Breaking from our usual nature outings, we ventured into the heart of the city to experience Olvera Street, the birth place of the city of Los Angeles. What a blessing to be able to take our babies, toddlers, five year olds, eight year olds; all ages alike, on an off day of the week, without
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