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Homeschool ature Plans for January
Happy New Year! I really love the feel of a new start don’t you? Today was our first day back at lessons. I have to confess to not having spent a minute of…
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Planning To Implement Nature Study?
It is my habit to check my social media accounts before we start lessons. This morning as I was quickly scrolling through my Facebook feed I noticed that my friend, Lynn, is offering…
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Five ‘Yay’s!’ on Friday
It’s Friyay (yes, the spelling is intended). There’s been lots to say ‘yay’ about this week hasn’t there? For a start it was the queens 90th birthday yesterday. ‘Yay!’ # 1 Our family…
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On the Homeschooling Front.
April has been all about family. We are preparing for exam season, my eldest daughter is writing in May and June. She suddenly hit a ‘panic’ after attempting her first past paper for…
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Charlotte Mason Monday ~ Picture Study & The Arts
Picture Study is one of those things that you can include in your day that really does not take up allot of time, but has a huge impact. It takes us all of…
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Charlotte Mason Monday~A Morning Basket of Living Books
Years ago when I first started blogging, I had a little series of posts called ‘Charlotte Mason Monday’. Obviously these posts were posted on a Monday 😉 and were about homeschooling using the…
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When You Have To Compromise On Your Homeschooling Philosophy…
We’ve been homeschooling using the Charlotte Mason philosophy in our homeschool for many years. Everything about her philosophy was just “right”. I totally fell in love with her living books, her rigorous yet…
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The Joy of Celebrating the Season with Poetry
How exciting to wake up to a new month, a new season and a feast day! Today is St.Davids Day, the patron saint of Wales. I think I might make potato and leek…
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Music Appreciation…
** I thought that I would follow up my old Art Appreciation post with one on Music Appreciation or Composer Study. This post was written in 2011 but we still use the same…
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Appreciating Art – Appreciating Charlotte Mason’s Method!
** Tomorrow we are off on a 5 day holiday on a boat on the Norfolk Broads. We are super excited of course, but I thought that while I am away it would…
Inspiration for the aspiring Proverbs 31 Woman