I love birds, I am always looking for them. This week, I looked out my window and noticed a great deal of activity over at the basil bush in the garden. I looked longer and spied the bright yellow flash of the American Goldfinch. We’ve have mostly boring birds here in the heart of Orange [...]
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I’ve gone back to school, sort of..I call it “mom-school”.Here is my new study- RosettaStone French. I have been saying for many moons that I would like to study French again, and I have to thank Sky for finally getting me going with it. He studied a little Spanish with RosettaStone, and then decided he [...]
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The Charlotte Mason philosophy of homeschooling is known to most people for two shining areas; nature study and narration. Most simply put, narration is the practice of ‘telling back’ what one has learned. In the old days, I believe it was called ‘reciting’ a lesson. We practice a form or narration when we are excited [...]
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We homeschool for many different reasons. No homework, was not actually on the original list..but it has been an unexpected blessing. I am sitting here, blogging, while 5 kids play on the floor around me. They are not sitting at the table working on homework, but playing with the playmobil sets that live permanently (it [...]
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Photo of Sky, Meg and Josie with friends up in Eastern Washington, overlooking the Kamiak Butte. I think, or on the Kamiak Butte, not sure. I don’t actually know what a Butte is…it just looks like a neat landscape photo of lots of snow to me…and cold. We had the bible school boys over tonight, [...]
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This looked like a lot of fun… watch the video, it is really well done, and a fun prank… Dawn over at By Sun and Candlelight did a post on her bird feeders, it was inspirational- they are very much into bird watching at their house, and she gives some tips on how to attract [...]
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I know that organizing, planning and out with the old, in with the new is on all of our minds right now…here are a few good things I stumbled on recently: A mom’s planner for 2008-It’s called “A year of Masterly Inactivity with Charlotte Mason” put out by the folks at Simply Charlotte Mason. The [...]
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