Seeking Truth, Goodness, and Beauty
This year should be blessedly normal. I’ll have three normal Ambleside Online years, no combining. My 12 year old will do year 7 (something between full and lite), my 10 year old will be in year 5, and my 8…
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I am honored to host the Charlotte Mason blog carnival. This month’s topic is Education, the Science of Relations, found in chapter 17 of volume 3. We’ll start with two posts from Letters from Nebby, first, we need to avoid emotional…
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The upcoming blog carnival is about chapter 17 of Charlotte Mason’s third book: the science of relations. On what does Fulness of Living depend?––What is education after all? An answer lies in the phrase––Education is the Science of Relations. I do…
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I’m going to put up a few pictures from the book Dancing Bears: Fast Track. This program has been a gift from God for my probably dyslexic son. He is my happy, hard-working, lego-loving, very literal boy who has hit…
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Today was smoother. We made the third project – a picture frame. For the pictures we cannibalized some newspapers. We used construction paper again, it seems to work fine although I would like to try different papers. Purple – Mom…
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One of the things that drew me to Visual Latin was that it leads into my favorite Latin program, Lingua Latina. Visual Latin and Lingua Latina, together, are high school credit worthy. But I’m not teaching high schoolers, my two Latin…
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It went well. My seven year old needs a LOT of work in waiting for direction. Although if you get him to pay attention he can follow the directions. Of course, I could only find one ruler so we all…
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My book, which is the second edition of “The Story of Inventions“, does not match the Ambleside Online schedule. I have 2 extra chapters, and the order of my chapters is different. (The book is also called “Great Inventors and…
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I’m thrilled to have this lovely, costly book by David Hicks as an inter-library loan. My goal is to read through the first part before 10am Saturday, when it has to be in the return box. (I cheated and read…
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When I think of how I’ve changed as a home educator, the biggest area is literature. I like to think I understand math, Latin and our English language better. I still believe history should be taught with living books and…
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