“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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Fine Arts Friday: A tentative plan
Emphasis on tentative. For fine arts, we generally follow the Ambleside schedule for art, music (composer, folk song, and hymns) and poetry. Ambleside works on a 3-term schedule, starting in September. We generally follow that, but we do some fine arts “pick up” work in the summer. I want to have a set schedule for […]
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Am I crazy?
Don’t answer that. So I’m watching this very interesting article on light pollution and the dark sky movement, and I start thinking: If a city was successful in implementing a thorough dark sky policy, could you have a city entirely lit as needed BUT with close access to dark skies? Like a platform or a […]
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Fine Arts Friday: New York Nature Edition
Enjoying nature isn’t just an educational exercise we do with our kids. Sometimes, mom runs away with a friend and enjoys nature Upstate New York style. We started in the Finger Lakes region, staying at an inn attached to a winery. This is what we call “roughing it.” Then we went to Watkins Glen State […]
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Losing stars
I’ve mentioned before that our family likes to stargaze. Very often we’ll set up the telescope in the front lawn and find Mars or the moons of Jupiter or some other astronomical feature. Even though we’re in the close-in suburbs of Dallas, we get a decent view of the more prominent objects. However, for the […]
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Musings on the status of humanity
This post contains affiliated links. The nudge rant yesterday has had me contemplating the current status of autonomy and self-determination. Frankly, it’s surprising how many people aren’t exercised about the government doing (more) social engineering. Government bureaucrats shaping our actions and values based on their own arbitrary standards? Yawn. Have the predictions of C.S. Lewis […]
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This Is My Father’s World
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Fine Arts Friday: Nature Walk
We’ve been at my parents this past week while my mom has knee surgery. Needless to say, we haven’t done much school and the kids have been left to their own devices while I’ve been going to and from the hospital. They’ve been great, but I knew we needed to take a break, so yesterday […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Getting into Nature
Charlotte Mason taught that science in the early years should consist entirely of nature studies. Forget atoms and molecules and other abstract ideas, young children should learn all they can about the natural world within their reach.Simply Charlotte Mason, an excellent resource, has a great article on the 8 Reasons To Do Nature Studies that’s […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Love of nature
In future posts, I’ll be talking more in depth about the how and why of nature study, but today I want to honor the woman who instilled in me a love of nature and to wish her a happy birthday! My mother is a great lover of beauty, especially natural beauty. Now I’m from West […]
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Fine Arts Friday: An Introduction
We’re going to call last week’s post “The prologue.” This will actually be the introductory post for what I hope to do in these “Fine Arts Friday” posts. As I explained in the prologue, now that our fine arts co-op is permanently winding down, I want to keep up with our fine arts studies at […]
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