Thanksgiving was late this year which means there is even less time to do your holiday shopping! Admittedly, I don’t get caught up in the craziness of retail this time of year and spend most of December hiding in my house. I somehow managed to get 98% of the kids’ gifts before Thanksgiving this year, which makes me kind of…
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(Please note that I have linked to book lists on the AO website to respect their licensing terms and the hard work they’ve put into such an amazing curriculum that they offer for free. Books that use affiliate links here are not listed on the AO website.) We had a good start to the year with Term 1 with only a few…
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I’ve had a desire for a few years now to put together something that allows me to incorporate art into our yearly Advent traditions. Our co-op has had the practice of picking an extra print from one of our artists with the theme of the nativity or some other holiday-related subject, and I’ve enjoyed having these pieces to display in…
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The morns are meeker than they were, The nuts are getting brown; The berry’s cheek is plumper, The rose is out of town. The maple wears a gayer scarf, The field a scarlet gown. Lest I should be old-fashioned, I’ll put a trinket on. ~Autumn, Emily Dickinson~ I, of course, had plans at the beginning of the summer for us…
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To read more about Charlotte Mason picture study and to see the other picture study aids I have available, click here. “In the world of art there has never been a personality so clamorously imposed upon the minds of its contemporaries as that of Courbet. He was anathema to his generation and he forced himself upon its judgment with all the…
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