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Snow Day Fun
Well we got our promised snow and then some! 7 inches fell last night and left us a lovely white winter wonderland to enjoy this morning. I love how the trees looked last…
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OHC: The Sumac Shrub
For 3 years now I have wondered and wondered what shrub this could be. I’m not great at identification and always doubt whether I have made a correct identification or not. Most of…
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Planner Talk
This past year I have used The Well Planned Day – which I loved, but it could have had a bit more space to record our work. So for the 2014/2015 academic year…
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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…
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OHC – Wildflower:: The Cowslip
One of the Outdoor Hour Challenges this month is the Dandelion. Now we have covered this topic before, so I thought that we would still keep within the wild flower group and choose…
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OHC – Spring Cattail
Nature Study is a wonderfully fluid, ever growing wealth of knowledge to be had if you are care enough and are observant in your daily living. One of the areas in our nature…
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OHC – Spring Trees and Weather
Yesterday, being the Vernal Equinox, officially ushered in spring thus making it the perfect time to tackle two of this months Outdoor Hour Challenges. I decided that our walk today would be about…
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How We Use A.C.E
I wrote a review on the A.C.E (Accelerated Christian Education) curriculum to which we switched last year over at The Curriculum Choice. It has been by far my most popular and commented on…
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Blogging Away And A Thought or Two…
Good Monday Morning! I hope you all had a lovely weekend and are fully rested and ready to face the week. This week we are back at lessons – last week was a…