I found this article today on a commercial playground manufacturer’s website: New study says playgrounds should stimulate children’s imagination A five-year study in Vancouver, Canada, recently found that children may benefit from playgrounds that feature areas for free and sensory-stimulating play, The Vancouver Sun reports. “We found that outdoor play spaces that contain materials that […]
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I am an optimist. I thought my inspiring speech to my boys about all the immediate and long term benefits of learning a second language would keep them energized for the rest of the semester: it lasted two weeks. After two more weeks, my oldest son informed me, “I’m not going to thank you for
We headed back to an old familiar spot for our nature study this week – Bolsa Chica Wetlands. It’s really amazing to be able to visit the same places over and over throughout the year to see how everything changes with the seasons. So many things were in bloom, it made the whole place look
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“…be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind…” ~Romans 12:2 How do we as teaching Mothers renew our minds in the midst of all the cooking, cleaning, reading, managing, teaching, listening, doing, doing, doing every day? Well, here’s one great way! Christian Audio is giving away a free download of The Holiness of God
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While daytime temperatures here have been in the 50s and 60s – what we consider cold, crisp winter weather – and we’ve been getting heaps of rain, the birds and plants are clearly under the impression that Spring is well on its way. The swallows are back in town, soaring here and there and neighborhood
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
For anyone interested, I am posting the reading from our local February meeting on ‘rigor’ below. You can also join in on a discussion about this topic in the discussion forum here: http://charlottemasoneducation.ning.com/forum/topics/rigor-1 There was a recent article in the Wall Street Journal by Amy Chua, author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother entitled
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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My 9yo daughter’s bag that we got at the $1 spot at Target that lasted over a year tore so she asked if she could make a bag like her friend Taylor’s. I did a Google search and showed her some pictures and she found one she liked. It took only 2 yards of fabric
I heard this quote at a business training seminar years ago… No one waxes a rented car The speaker was making a point about the difference between employee mentality and business owner mentality; that, generally speaking, people care more for something, in this case a business, when they are the ones who own it. What
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