In case you missed Part I, you can find it here. Since that post, I was able to obtain a copy of The Changing Year by F.M. Haines, the book mentioned by Charlotte Mason in Vol. 6 and her programmes as an aid to the “great deal of out-of-door work” her students did in a […]
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Jeanne and her daughter Jemimah arrived from Australia today for a brief visit before heading off cross country to visit other AO friends. Here’s the wildest creature our girls found today while playing in the sand at the beach!
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“Those first-born affinities That fit our new existence to existing things.” Charlotte Mason quotes this more than once, it’s a verse from William Wordsworth’s poem Prelude describing something I’m not so sure any of us really know how to quantify. What does she mean by it? She begins her entire section devoted to the task
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You can find Part II here: http://livingcminca.blogspot.com/2013/07/choose-some-special-study-part-ii.html In describing her Science curriculum in Volume 6, Towards a Philosophy of Education, Charlotte Mason wrote: They are expected to do a great deal of out-of-door work in which they are assisted by The Changing Year, admirable month by month studies of what is to be seen out-of-doors.
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Our friend’s 9 year old daughter noticed this holdfast at the beach today. She also found the handy big red bucket floating in the ocean 🙂 Looking closer at the holdfast, we found some pretty amazing things… Brittle Stars Lots of brittle stars 🙂 Can you tell what this is? Here’s a video of it.
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A quick post on my observations this week. I have no idea what this plant is… But look at the beautiful way it seeds – suspended between two wings while the holding frames move further and further apart. I’ve never seen a plant that seeds this way; such a beautifully imagined process and the orderliness
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If you want to read my previous posts outlining our process of figuring out what to do for the Book of Centuries, you can read them hereand here. To see what an actual Book of Centuries looked like in the P.N.E.U. school, you can see one here. Load times are extremely slow on the Redeemer
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My husband and I finally sat down and watched Les Miserable after hearing many mixed reviews about it. We loved it and blubbered ridiculously together. My favorite scene had to be Jean Valjean’s (Hugh Jackman) turmoil in the church after he is given the candlesticks. His moment of coming to terms with his sin and
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Here are some pictures taken at O’Neill Regional Park on March 30th to give you an idea of what’s blooming this Spring. Some of the pictures are blurry, but I had to keep up with my family who knows I’d spend far too long taking pictures if they waited for me 🙂 California buttercup (Ranunculus
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I heard Leslie Noelani Laurio just finished working on a Modern translation of John Ruskin’s Sesame and Lilies, a YR10 AmblesideOnline Book. I’d never heard of it so I downloaded it and nosing through, came across this interesting suggestion of his and thought it worth sharing: Now, in order to deal with words rightly, this
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