Monday May 16 Homeschool group field trip to Borderlands State Park. We volunteered to help clean up the park (weeding, raking, sweeping, picking up sticks, trimming bushes, etc) and got a free tour of the historic Ames mansion. The kids loved both...
A little photographic tour of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, a selection of the photos taken on our recent field trip with some notes about how I look at art with children. Hint: it’s very similar to how I read literature with children...
Monday May 9 Slow start. Kids played outside. Bella sat and drank coffee and read Peter Duck and then decided to write a story, which she worked on all morning. Ben opened his notebook and decided to continue a story he’d began and asked me to spell...
A continuation of my thoughts in this post about reading for “what the book really means”. NOTICE Persons attempting to find a “text” in this book will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a “subtext” in this...
While I was recently re-reading The Sarantine Mosaic by Guy Gavriel Kay I was also obsessively listening to the recording of Hamilton the musical. (Actually, I’m still obsessively listening to Hamilton.) But as I read I pondered how both works are...
Monday May 2 Began the day with reading the day’s lectionary readings. Everyone was excited to see a familiar section of Acts. I did the first chapter of Life of Fred Apples with Ben, Sophie, and Anthony. I think we all need a little break from the...
Finding good books about the First World War was a bit of a challenge. Our local library didn’t have anything on the shelf at all. I had to go online and request some titles from other libraries in our network. I thought I’d share the...
Deconstructing Penguins: What the book’s Really about Deconstructing Penguins: Parents, Kids, and the Bond of Reading by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone is a well-intentioned book about how to read fiction with children that rubbed me the wrong...
On Saturday We took a family field Trip to Mt St Mary’s Abbey to learn about renewable energy at the Abbey. On Sunday our bedtime story was Planting the Trees of Kenya, a story about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace prize, how she...
Monday April 18 It was a Mondayish Monday and the weather was nice. Hard to get everyone to sit down. Sophie did part of a math page and a line of copywork. Bella did a page of math and eventually did some copywork before dinner (copied a sentence...
