I’m noticing this year how much we are loving our books. The kids and I are absolutely love, love, LOVING these books! Has this happened to you yet? If it hasn’t, rest assured it will. Like Little Duke, for example. We really didn’t like it. It was so… different from anything I’d read to her […]
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I discovered a link to this youtube video of Kent Risley as I was copying my daughter’s YR2 poetry from this page on Ambleside Online tonight. His story about the poem is painfully touching, and his recitation of it brings life and expression to it in ways you’d never imagine just reading the words on
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This was in the paper today… “From budget cuts to lawsuits and political unrest, 2010 is likely to be a challenging year for Orange County schools.” “Adding to local schools’ financial burdens are a series of national education reforms being pushed by President Obama, including a plan to tie teacher evaluations to their students’ performance.
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This fresco, The Descent of the Holy Spirit, located in the Spanish Chapel attached to the Church of St. Maria Novella, in Florence was loved greatly by Charlotte Mason. It represented to her a great truth, that “God the Holy Spirit is Himself, personally, the Imparter of knowledge, the Instructor of youth, the Inspirer of
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Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying
This is our second year of implementing recitation with our children, ranging in age from five to nine. Some of the selections we have used are: Caterpillar by Christina Rosetti, The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Lullaby by Edith Nesbit, Trees by Joyce Kilmer, 1st Corinthians 13, and Joy to the World. In that time,
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The soil is the sepulcher and the resurrection of all life in the past. The greater the sepulcher the greater the resurrection. The greater the resurrection the greater the growth. The life of yesterday seeks the earth to-day that new life may come from it tomorrow. The soil is composed of stone flour and organic
Have you ever imagined a world without sticks? The thought had never even crossed my mind, nor my children’s… until today. As our group was leaving one of our favorite nature trails, a worker came out to tell the kids not to take the sticks they were carrying. I believe her exact words were: “If
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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Happy Thanksgiving! I hope this Thanksgiving, perhaps through literature or poetry alongside our family experiences, we are able to share a living idea with our children. the dead yet speak their living thoughts in the work they have left us, and by which as by links of an endless chain all men are bound to
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