Seeking Truth, Goodness, and Beauty
Point the First: I have long desired to do a “31 Days in October” on my blog. Why haven’t I? Chiefly because of the calendar. You see, November follows October, and in November is my first love (at least in…
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Yesterday my year 5 student had dictation. We’ve just started Spelling Wisdom, book 2, and the beginning selections are short. He has done some dictation, but we’ve not been consistent. He is still learning the method. He is confident and…
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I powered off my computer and went outside, where my kids were. And the day changed from crummy to sweet.
I am going to attempt a post, even though my monitor is dying. To shorten a long story, I have black lines flashing horizontally across the screen. Which is making it hard to focus on individual words and check my…
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“Education is lighting a fire, not filling a bucket.” When a homeschool mom has a struggling reader, she is often advised to let content subjects take a back seat while she works on the basics. As one of those moms,…
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In the book Home Education, Charlotte has some wonderful advice for nature study: Calendars.––It is a capital plan for the children to keep a calendar––the first oak-leaf, the first tadpole, the first cowslip, the first catkin, the first ripe blackberries,…
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