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 […]
And yes, I am counting ‘fixing stuff’ a Handcraft.
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Kristine emailed me last night asking if I was following Challies’ latest posts titled: The Weaker, The Stronger, The Homeschooler, a series of posts based on Romans 14:1-12. The posts discuss Christian Homeschoolers, Public Schoolers and Private Schoolers and their attitudes towards one another’s educational choices for their children. Apparently, there are some less than
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…is the best kind 🙂 We found these little Dees Hobbitses under a canopy of trees on nature day singing songses and asked them to recite them for us 🙂 Don’t you just love how they adopt the accent and all? And little sister in the lap… ♥ These boys listened to the audio version
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We spent the day under a thick marine layer that never burned off at the beach for nature study today. The kids didn’t seem to notice as they dove in, testing the current in the cold foamy ocean waves. (Shaw’s Cove, Laguna Beach – a not quite finished sketch!) Their more sensible Mothers sat on
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For sometimes when we wonder, we can make things begin to happen. ~Teacher in The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong Once or twice a year our little nature study group gathers at a coffee shop in the evening without the children to talk and plan through nature study locations, field trips and events
Alicia, one of our nature study group mothers, who moved away to New Mexico about a year ago came to visit recently. It was so nice to see her and her four adorable girls, it was just like she had never left. She joined us for our annual blackberry picking nature day and by the
One of the most common questions new homeschooling Moms have is “What does a day look like?” I remember my stomach churning in knots the summer prior to my oldest starting Kindergarten. Everything I had read about the Charlotte Mason method resonated deeply with me – treating the child as a person, living books, not
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Spring… monkey flower and prickly pear on left prickly pear prickly pear golden yarrow lemonadeberry (give it a taste – it’s tart!) Not sure what this is mustard Don’t miss it!!
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We had Ryden baptised last Sunday. We have now had all four of our children baptised, thoughtfully, willingly, joyfully. I realize some of you may be opposed, even appalled by infant baptism. And while I’m not interested in picking up a debate on the issue (Jen!), I realize it is a controversial issue with great