Sunday We went apple picking and it was delightful. I’m not sure how much learning happened, but really this epitomizes what I think childhood should be. A tractor, a hayride, apple trees, apples coming off the trees, joyful children plucking...
Ho hum. Another Saturday afternoon brings with it the realization that I’ve forgotten to create a linkup post yet again. How many weeks do you think I’ll have to do this until I remember before Saturday? The title for this linkup is...
First, my usual caveat: I’m not an expert in anything. I’m just a mom with five kids, a couple of English degrees, and a very, very little experience teaching college level English. This blog is my chronicle not of what has been proven to work but...
First, my usual caveat: I’m not an expert in anything. I’m just a mom with five kids, a couple of English degrees, and a very, very little experience teaching college level English. This blog is my chronicle not of what has been proven to work but...
Some more, rather rambling, musings about teaching history with Story of the World, following up on History for the Young Child. In several follow-up discussions to Leila’s piece and my response and in other conversations about history and...
Sunday Managed to actually read Mass readings and discuss them before Mass. A really good discussion too about the cross and justice and mercy. Anthony looking over Dom’s shoulder saw the still shot for the Shakespeare Original Pronunciation...
Leila has a post up about the kind of history we do. She explains it thusly, and her description is apt as to the basic outline: This is how it goes: Start a young child — in Kindergarten, say — with something like “cradle of civilization” (another...
My how time flies. Today I woke up convinced it was Thursday. But it’s not. Friday, time to put together another little link up party. I was so thrilled at how many people joined in on last week’s get together. I tried to leave comments...
St. Patrick’s Summer: A Children’s Adventure Catechism by Marigold Hunt. I cannot sing the praises of this book highly enough. It is a hundred times better than any dry catechism I have tried to use. I suppose there might be a few things...
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Learning Notes Week of Sept 8
Monday For copywork I copied out one of the antiphons from today’s Morning Prayer for the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary: “When the most holy Virgin was born, the whole world was made radiant.” Which was really...
