(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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February has a reputation in the homeschooling world for being the month when the feelings of wanting to quit are at their peak. It can be a time of year when many families are tired of being trapped indoors (and facing at least a month more of it), moms and kids are sick of the same old routine (which is…
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I’ve been thinking about offering the Charlotte Mason Picture Study Aids in some kind of printed form for a while. Some of you have expressed interest in this option either via my feedback form or other means, and so it’s definitely been something on my mind. Originally my intention was just to offer the picture study aid itself, with no…
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It is very helpful to read with a commonplace book or reading-diary, in which to put down any striking thought in your author, or your own impression of the work, or of any part of it; but not summaries of facts. Such a diary, carefully kept through life, should be exceedingly interesting as containing the intellectual history of the writer;…
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