Reading stories like the Little House Series, Caddie Woodlawn, Heidi, and Children of the New Forest, it’s difficult not to want to experience nature with our children. To be somewhere wild where there is adventure, beauty, spontaneity and freedom to explore.Spending a few hours outdoors together as a family this past weekend, I couldn’t help […]
Inspired by a recent blog post over at Ambleside Reflections, our topic of discussion at this month’s meeting was JOY. Regarding joy, Charlotte Mason wrote: The happiness of the child is the condition of his progress; that his lessons should be joyous, and that occasions of friction in the schoolroom are greatly to be deprecated.
Someone once said that wisdom comes from two places: your own experience, or the experience of others. While my own experience seems to be the best teacher, it isn’t always the most painless. So when possible, I prefer to learn from the experience of others. If you’re anything like me, here are two discussions that
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A poem a day… it takes less than a minute most days. Yet it enriches our thoughts immensely. Here is one I just loved from our our Poet this term, Sara Teasdale. Faultsby Sara Teasdale They came to tell your faults to me, They named them over one by one, I laughed aloud when they
The topic at our monthly CM discussion this month was: Discerning What is Good or Harmful for our Children in Literature, Art, Music, etc. We arrived to bubbling hot chocolate on the stove, fresh pot of coffee with Peppermint Mocha creamer and several treats to tempt the palate – what a warm welcome! Then to
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Over the bridge… Over the roads on moving land… Over the perilous boulders… To Point Vicente we go! If it seems like we’ve been hitting the tide-pools a lot – we have. Low tide seems to be prevalent in the fall/winter here and in the spring/summer we go months without. I’m sure there’s a reason
I hope you had a blessed Thanksgiving! Here are a few photos from the past couple weeks capturing some fun moments: A close encounter with a Great Blue Heron… A first time volunteered recitation… precious. this counts as phys ed and science… An adorable handcraft – tutorial and template here. There’s no end to how
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Here’s a video from our tromp along a trail earlier this week. We think this is one of Rabbit’s long lost Relations, but we’re not quite sure so we brought it home to see what will emerge. Any ideas what it might be? Here are some more pictures… praying mantis white sage gall that we
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Images from Tokien’s Letters from Father Christmas Our last meeting was on the Holidays and there were some great ideas so I thought I’d post them all here. This is really just a list of my notes from the evening of things other than the typical advent calendar, caroling, etc. that are in no particular
Having played violin in an orchestra in Japan, my Mother loved classical music and often played it in our home when I was a little girl. Sometimes we would visit her older sister, in whose tiny home in Tokyo sat a Grand Piano, far too large for its surroundings, but an essential in their home.