Last fall after visiting an exhibition of medieval manuscripts I wrote about how I longed for an illuminated missal. In the comments to that post someone suggested I investigate the St Isaac Jogues Illuminated Missal. I checked out their website...
Last fall the McMullen Museum at Boston College hosted a beautiful exhibit of illuminated manuscripts and had a wonderful class for children where they got to make manuscripts of their own. Bella, Sophie, Ben, and I loved that class and the...
Monday November 13 Anthony did math, read a saint story, did copywork (the Scout Oath) Ben did math, Explode the Code, copywork (Scout Law) Sophie did math and copwork Bella did math and a history quiz on Khan Academy and did copywork. Read: Pegeen...
Today’s first reading, from the Book of Wisdom, was arresting. I’m not sure I’d ever read or heard it before. Or if I had, I hadn’t really paid attention: When peaceful stillness compassed everything and the night in its swift course was half...
Monday November 6 Anthony: math, read History, copywork. Ben: math, Explode the Code. Sophie: math, copywork, dictation, French, read Geography. Bella: Khan academy, dictation/copywork, read St George, read Bible. Stories: Francie on the Run, King...
Monday October 30 When I got up Bella was almost done with her school work. She’d done her math and her copywork and her Latin. As I made breakfast she read a couple poems out loud. She wanted to make the day go fast so that Halloween would get here...
Finished The Hounds of the Morrigan by Pat O’Shea. A high fantasy novel about a little boy, Pidge (short for Patrick), and his sister Bridget who find an ancient manuscript and are caught up in a dramatic conflict among the ancient Irish gods and...
Monday October 23 Ben did math and read me a Bob book. Anthony did math. Bella did math and copywork. Sophie did math and copywork. The kids got out the Mass kit and played Mass. They did the whole thing. Bella was priest because she could read the...
