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Attentiveness – Sound
Today we had fun building our very own telephone with string and cans and listening to the tick of a watch through a wooden table! The object of the lessons? That sound vibrations…
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Learning is Fun
Note: the letters and page numbers in parenthesis refers to the activity and page numbers in the KONOS curriculum. This weeks focus Bible verse: Isiah 55:3 – Incline your ear and come to me. Listen,…
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Vocabulary in KONOS
Vocabulary has been something that I have always glossed over, not for any reason other than I honestly didn’t know what to do with all those lists of words at the beginning of…
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Attentiveness – Week 1
Our KONOS week got off to a bit of a rough start with KONOS Kid 2 having come down with a tummy bug during the night and as a result slept most of…
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A Double Diamond Celebration
How exciting! I am hosting my first Charlotte Mason Carnival! Welcome to ‘Under An English Sky’ my fellow CMers. Here in England, we have just come out of some very exiting celebrations. Our…
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OHC – The Meadow Buttercup
When we first started participating in the Outdoor Hour, I have to admit to having very little confidence in approaching the study of nature. Anna Botsford Comstocks ‘Handbook of Nature Study’ (link on…
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Be Inspired to Learn Free
San over at Multicoloured Madness featured this on her blog and I found it so inspiring. It is a lengthy video so grab a cup of tea and give yourself 30 minutes to…
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History: A Storehouse of Ideas
Much that has been said about the teaching of geography applies equally to that of history. Here, too, is a subject which should be to the child an inexhaustible storehouse of ideas, should…
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OHC – Spring Flower – The Bluebell
With a Spring Flower being one of the challenges this month, I could not resist focusing on one of England’s treasures – the Bluebell. Each year, the woodlands in England spring to life…
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An Introduction to Charlotte Masons 20 Principles
This post has been written for the Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival. Principle:-1. A moral rule guiding behavior. 2. A general or basic truth When I was first introduced to Charlotte Mason, the group I…
Inspiration for the aspiring Proverbs 31 Woman