Island of the World by Michael D. O’Brien My rating: 5 of 5 stars Borrowed from a Library. Hope to own. This book is beautiful beyond words. Painful, excruciating at times. But even there the words are beautiful. Joy, infinite joy. Sadness, deep sadness. It will make you think. I can’t review such a book….
She finished The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe this morning.
This week was mostly good. Wednesday, I was invited to a meeting, so we didn’t do any lessons. We made the individual work up today. That felt good, adding Circle Time would have been better. We had a little trouble getting started, not used to those early 7AM mornings, and some attitude issues to work…
When I was younger than seven, we lived in a house with a huge yard, with a few trees in one corner along a drain ditch glamourously referred to as a creek. Three of the trees had grown close together and we called them the “telephone tree” … this was when there were telephone booths. …
We’re carrying on with our read alouds … The Burgess Bird Book, The Mouse and the Motorcycle, The Jungle Book. We’re enjoying them, well two of them, we’re looking forward to finishing Burgess in the next week! So, no reviews this week, but I hope for some in the next!
N-boy shoveled a path down the sidewalk from the corner to the other neighbor’s driveway. He wanted to help the neighbors out. Yay, N-boy! Great work! M-girl shoveled a little too, can’t let her little brother show her up 😉 R-girl pulled some beach toys out and made a “snow castle.” I would have never…
Inspired last summer by the crazy long filing thread and in past years by By Sun and Candlelight’s File Crate System, I decided to set up files for our homeschool. At first, I thought I’d put everything in weekly folders. In other words, pages for everything into a folder marked “Week 1” and so on. …
I was asked elsewhere about “what’s that math program you use?” and “how do you use it?” and “you should blog about it.” Generally, I feel like such a neophyte that I’m loathe to tell others what or how I do something, but since I was asked … For our main math program we use…
I think Esolen’s premise is here to pretend to teach children something boring them in the process. Then, you won’t have to work so hard to bore them or teach them, because they’ll have already tuned you out. And I think schools often do this; not necessarily as intentionally as Esolen is describing. I was…