Another CiRCE chat, more Andrew Kern quotes. Educating in order to “Fatten up their Souls” You’ll read old stories together. You’ll talk about what you read. You’ll give them experiences seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, and tasting beautiful things. You’ll give them the same sort of experiences with true and good things; especially in your words…
Ah. The Principal stepped in and spoke with the children, and Wednesday morning went much better. Lord willing, this will continue. We accomplished quite a bit in our regular educating. M-girl came in dress-up clothes to the table one day: Memory Work: Bible: Another week another verse. We’re through verse 16. When we finish Day…
FOR TODAY July 19, 2010… Outside my window… the ground is wet, the sun is shining, and the birds are tweeting. The garden is growing by leaps and bounds. Lovely morning. I am thinking… so much my head is spinning. School, school planning, trip to Atlanta prep, flower garden ideas, food, aaah! Make it stop!…
The children are in the basement “playing” their instruments and singing. The selection has been, er, eclectic at best. The last two songs? Mmmm-Ah! Went the Little Green Frog (don’t ask me, ask Jason) How Great Thou Art It is a bit of a mental jolt with each new song …
We had some rough patches this week, but generally things are going well. Now if only I could figure out how to keep up with the laundry too! And we’re only doing 3 day weeks [sigh] Memory Work: Bible: moving along nicely with this, we added the next verse. Catechism/Creed: Same questions as last week,…
I’m working on a new organizational system for our schooling/life/planning. I’ll post more when I get closer to done. Part of that system will include charts to track our completion of lessons for “do the next thing” style curricula. I was inspired by a chart another mom posted and by our library’s summer reading program…
