We have officially finished our first half-term of six weeks. What a great first term it has been. Don’t get me wrong, we have had token fighting over school work and bad attitudes have been righted on a daily basis. There is still a lot of detraining of bad habits to be done and retraining…
Last week I shared a Charlotte Mason quote from For the Children’s Sake. Today, I’d like to share Charlotte Mason directly from A Philosophy of Education. In the second chapter, she deals quite extensively with the concept of ideas. She argues that ideas are what people latch onto and how they connect with other people…
FOR TODAY Outside my window… it is bitterly cold and a little snowy. The sky is slowly transitioning from black to grey in the east. I am thinking… about yesterday’s sermons, which were fantastic. (Morning: Our Example; Evening: Loosened Tongues) I am thankful… for my nice, warm house away away from the very cold yesterday.. I am…
I really, really wanted a post about how to *revel* in our marriages for February, what with it posting on Valentine’s Day and all, and wow, did my friend Karen duBarry from www.livingunabridged.com knock it out of the park. Jason and I have a really great marriage, but can’t we all always learn more about…
Week 5 down. One more week then break … Woo-hoo! As much as I am loving the work we’re doing with AmblesideOnline Year 4, I think we will all enjoy a week to reset. Each of these first few weeks I’ve been gushing about how much I love what we’re working on. It really has…
Every other Thursday, our group of homeschool friends gather together for lunch, play time, and studying art. We are a group of five families of homeschoolers from ages 12 down to a new little one expected this summer. There are 20 children currently wandering about, though. We also generally have one lady who has adopted…
On Monday, we had our first CM Group meeting. We’re using Brandy’s study guide, Start Here. In it, she assigns readings from For the Children’s Sake and A Philosophy of Education. In For the Children’s Sake, Susan Schaeffer Macaulay says some pretty profound things. One of the first, for me so apropos, is, We have to…
Celeste asked us to share our favorite place of Commonplace Keeping. I love keeping a Commonplace for a couple of disparate reasons. First, I love keeping Words. If you’re new around here, you may not know that every Wednesday I post a linkup called “Wednesdays with Words.” Cindy Rollins graciously allowed me to take over…