As we’re coming up on the anniversary of B’s first Junior Ranger badge, I thought it might be fitting to do a little recap of the place where it all started for us: Bent’s Old Fort. This tiny national historic site is located next to the Arkansas River on the eastern plains of Colorado near the town of La Junta….
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Recently, someone on my Facebook page requested that I take the same weekly schedule format I offer in the kindergarten curriculum and use that to offer an ebook for our Year 1 schedule as well. I’m so glad people are finding it useful! However, because we’re using Ambleside Online’s Year 1 book list and schedule with very few modifications, as well…
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To read more about Charlotte Mason picture study and to see the other aids I have available, click here. Antoine Watteau was only 36 years old when he died in the early part of the 18th century, yet in the short amount of time he was alive, he became a master of one of the most popular art movements in history;…
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(You can see some of our other Junior Ranger adventures here.) After a bit of a break from road trips and vacations and things along those lines for a few months, we decided to take advantage of the post-spring-break, pre-summer-vacation season to drive down to southern Arizona to visit E’s mom who winters there. On the way, we also were…
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And here we are, suddenly in April. How did that happen? Honestly, I haven’t had much to write about (other than what has already been written) here anyway, so it’s probably good I’m squishing three months into one post. There was the super blue blood moon in late January and I had the Charlotte Mason Educational Retreat in early February,…
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(You can see our Term 1 plans here and a recap of Term 1 here. 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. Books that use affiliate links here are not listed on the AO website.) I’m having a hard…
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(To read more about Charlotte Mason picture study and to see the other aids I have available, click here.) In honor of what would’ve been his 543rd birthday, today I am offering for free download a Charlotte Mason picture study aid for Michelangelo! Buon compleanno, Signore Buonarroti! This is, by far, the longest picture study I have made to date (47…
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Based on the number of emails I’ve received asking about an updated Charlotte Mason-Inspired Kindergarten Curriculum for the 2018-2019 school year, there are a lot of you out there already starting to plan your next school year! Props to you as I haven’t even finalized my term 3 for this year and it starts in less than two weeks. 😳…
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I first found this recipe several years ago when I received a butternut squash through a CSA and had absolutely no idea what to do with it. I’m not the biggest fan of squashes, unless it comes in pumpkin pie form, so I was at a loss. Compound that with a dairy sensitivity in our family that renders most butternut…
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As I mentioned last week, I helped out at the Charlotte Mason Educational Retreat this last weekend in Colorado Springs. It was truly, truly an honor to be able to help this year and I can’t even begin to express how thankful I am to be part of the homeschool co-op that is behind this event. I love these women…
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Hello friends. I had every hope of being able to post a new picture study aid for you this week (specifically for the Michelangelo selections from AO) and finding information for this one hasn’t been an issue at all (in fact…I’m actually kind of running into the opposite problem). But…well….life, you know? It gets in the way of plans. Most…
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