For those who are subscribed to my mailing list, I sent out a new-old, free download for you a few weeks ago! I actually offered these printables for a month or two last summer, but as my list has grown since then, I thought I might offer them again to those who missed out the first time! This time around…
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My annual reading recap and refresh post is a little late this year, but when I originally planned on posting it, I had not actually reached my goal of reading 36 books last year yet….so I’m glad I waited! Initially, I did not consider the year a success in the reading department. I made a lot of plans at the…
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What can be said in New Year rhymes, That’s not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old years go, We know we dream, we dream we know. We rise up laughing with the light, We lie down weeping with the night. We hug the world until it stings, We curse it then and sigh for wings….
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(Please note that I have linked to book lists on the AO website to respect their licensing terms. Books that use affiliate links here are not listed on the AO website.) We started Ambleside Online Year 2 Term 2 for my 8-year-old son, B (as well as WeeFolkArt Winter Wonderland for my 4-year-old daughter, C) last week, so I’m offering my recap of Term…
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And suddenly the holidays are upon us and every place is worked up into a frenzy of red and green and fairy lights, especially retail establishments. Without fail, I wait until the last possible second most years to do all of my holiday shopping, which has been a new development since kids came along. I do, however, have ideas before…
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Over the last several weeks, I’ve been posting a series on our Charlotte Mason homeschool co-op. The first post was about the “why” behind our joining, the second post covered “how” ours is set up, and the last post and this one talk more about “what” it looks like in practice. Last week, I went through half of a co-op…
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In my last two posts, I wrote about the why of being in a Charlotte Mason homeschool co-op followed by details on how ours operates. In today’s post and the next one, I’ll be walking through a typical co-op day and talk about what each subject looks like. Schedule Prior to our co-op year starting, our leader comes up with a schedule…
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Last week I wrote a fairly personal post about the “why” behind a Charlotte Mason homeschool co-op, including how I feel this community is not only a gift to my kids, but also to me. This week I thought I’d get down a little more into the nitty-gritty and practical side of it by talking about the “how.” Background Our…
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“Everyone will become like family.” These words were spoken to me on a warm summer afternoon last year as I was standing in line in someone’s kitchen, waiting to pile my plate with food. We were there to have our first planning meeting for our homeschool co-op and the moms were enjoying a meal together before we got down to…
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To read more about Charlotte Mason picture study and to see the other aids I have available, click here. Prior to starting this picture study aid, Vermeer was an artist I admired very much. I studied a few of his paintings in college in depth but knew very little about his life (with good reason – very little is actually known about…
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No melancholy days are these! Not where the maple changing stands, Not in the shade of fluttering oaks, Nor in the bands Of twisting vines and sturdy shrubs, Scarlet and yellow, green and brown, Falling, or swinging on their stalks, Is Sorrow’s crown. The sparkling fields of dewy grass, Woodpaths and roadsides decked with flowers, Starred asters and the goldenrod,…
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