pumpkin dh carved My 21st century literature chops stay honed by talking with friends like Dr. Donna Johnson. Last night she spoke to our PMEU group via Skype about “Youth Fiction – 2011”. She keeps up with the newer titles for her Children’s Lit class that she instructs at Dakota Wesleyan University. Donna was very positive and when she finds…
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Science Narration Journals
I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive. – Albert Einstein When my two oldest, now graduated, entered the middle school years, I handed them a popular science textbook. Up to this point, all we had used were living books for science. They had read, narrated, sketched, labeled, observed, and recorded all sorts of things in addition to spending…
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Walnuts Plumping
“Harvest Home” is from one of my favorite poetry books, The Year Around. I read this to the children recently. They were delighted with “And walnuts plumping fast and faster”. Do you know what that is referring to? Harvest Home The maples flare among the spruces, The bursting foxgrape spills its juices, The gentians lift their sapphire fringes On roadways…
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Tools for Writing
Get thy tools ready, God will find the work. -Browning Young Girl Writing A Letter by Jonathan Janson She has this little obsession about the Library of Alexandria. She’s ordered a few books on it from the library and had me print out the Wikipedia article on it so she could scribble her notes all over it. Now she’s asking…
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My Calendar of Firsts
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, where seen, and when. The next year they will know when and where to look out for their favourites, and will, every year, be in a condition to add new observations. Think of…
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Sidewalk Chalk Art
The Holy Family Doni Tondo by Michelangelo 1506 For Picture Study this term, we are looking at the works of Michelangelo. This is one of the subjects that we do in our TBG Community, and Heidi is our picture study maven. She does an amazing job and I wish you could visit when she is teaching. I don’t think she…
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Pilgrim’s Progress
Prior to homeschooling my progenies, my only experience with John Bunyan’s classic, Pilgrim’s Progress, was a tedious youth group experience in which we were to read the story and fill out workbook pages. We endured this because, well, we wanted to get to the broomball game. Sad, isn’t it? It certainly didn’t bring the following objective about – Any child…
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Of Memes and Things
Here is part of the sisters’ nature table which greets visitors at the side door. So, my friend from New Zealand, Rachael, tagged me for this homeschool meme. “Meme” is an interesting word that I rarely hear in everyday conversation. Here is a slideshow and an article for further reading, if you are so inclined. Ten Unforgettable Web Memes (How…
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Singing is to the Song Thrush as Narration is to the Child
Now this art of telling back is Education and is very enriching. (Mason, 1925/1989, p. 292) My frazzled friend wrote to me with the following query, “With all the different levels and subjects of my children, are my days going to consist only of narration?” So I wrote back, “Well, to a great extent, yes! That is, if you want…
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