Celeste at Joyous Lessons is starting a new monthly linkup series on “Keeping” as described in Laurie Bestvater’s book, The Living Page. I have not yet read that, but thought I’d share a couple of pages from my Commonplace Books. I love when Celeste shares on Wednesdays with Words. She generally shares a picture of…
What a great game! Ezekiel Elliott ran all over Oregon. The Silver Bullets smothered Heisman Trophy winner Marcus Mariotta. Led by the next group of Super Sophomores. And Urban Meyer forces me to take back my dislike of his spread (although that looked like Big Ten football to me, run it up the gut) WooHoo!…
FOR TODAY – CHAMPIONSHIP GAMEDAY Outside my window… Jason says it is icy and slushy, but if it gets colder it’ll really freeze hard. I am thinking… about our first day of lessons today. I think we’re all ready. The two older children both mentioned yesterday that they were excited about our new direction. The…
Welcome to the School Starts on Monday Edition of my Weekly Reports for 2015! It is my goal to put together a report of our schooling every Friday afternoon when we’ve done a week of school. Because we have major changes in our homeschool for the 2015 Academic Year, I’m going to post today first,…
Yesterday, I decided to start sharing with you my current book bag in a blatant attempt to create accountability in my reading and to read widely with discernment. I hope to share this feature every other week here at ladydusk. I really do have a book bag. Years ago at the Cincinnati Homeschool Convention, Memoria…
Over the weekend, I talked about the schedule change we’ll make for the Big Blocks of Time. I want to think about the schedule change for the small blocks of time, the days and weeks, too. After prayer, discussion with my husband, discussion with trusted advisors, I’ve decided to do Year 4 of Ambleside Online…
In Chapter 1 of Consider This, Karen Glass writes about Charlotte Mason and her development as a Educational Philosopher. The reader might not think a chapter such as this would hold nuggets of philosophy to consider. The reader would be wrong. Glass shows from Mason’s own writings how she was able to read widely, delve…
Charlotte Mason’s idea of Habit Training and Mystie’s Interval Training are going to merge for us. Six weeks sounds like a good amount of time to start new habits. I’m pretty sure we’re going to start on those Bible Reading and exercise habits I’ve talked about in the series, but here are some resources I’m…
This is shocking to me. He is smart and musical, creative and physical. He is so very strong. He is interested in sports and building and Lego’s and Knex. He is loving watching the original Star Wars movies with his dad, they’ve watched the first two. He read Wind in the Willows and started on…