Entries Tagged as ‘Charlotte Mason’
June 10, 2009
Owl Puke!
Yes, you read that right – Owl Puke. The technical name would be Owl Pellet, or something much more refined, but this title got your attention, yes?
I recently attended the 2009 Homeschool Conference in the lower mainland of our province. This was their second year however, in a new venue, and even though there was less [...]
May 26, 2009
Proofread Carefully to See if You Any Words Out.
Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. – Gene Fowler
The last few weeks of our homeschool have been focused on how to write a formal essay. We follow a loose Classical/Charlotte Mason homeschool philosophy, and are transitioning from copywork and dictation exercises to [...]
February 6, 2009
I Lichen You Very Much!
Well, this whole new enthusiasm thing seems to be contagious! Today we went for another nature walk, but this time our group of young botonists grew from two to seven! This time we ventured a little further from home, to a local city park. We were on the hunt for birds, but the kids were so enthusiastic that [...]
February 5, 2009
A Winter Nature Walk
Well, after taking my first dose of my newly prescribed fresh enthusiasm, we had a fantastic day! We did many things differently, enough to write a few new posts about, but the highlight of the day was taking off outside and reacquainting ourselves with “the nature walk”. Armed with notebooks, pencils, binoculars and field guides [...]
February 4, 2009
A Fresh Dose of Enthusiasm!
I’ve been absent in the blogosphere lately, due to a number of things – but primarily I think I was suffering from dronitis. Occasionally, during summer months, my kids pick up a dose of what I call Imboreditis, but I’m pretty sure I had developed what I’m going to coin as dronitis. Dronitis, (pronounced drone-eye-tis) usually [...]
February 19, 2008
Field Trip Tuesday
Heart of the Matter Online Magazine features a weekly meme called Field Trip Tuesday. This meme gives homeschoolers a global view of a variety of ideas for homeschool field trips. Since we’ve had a variety of field trips over our five years of homeschooling, I’ve been sharing some ideas from last year’s archives. This weeks [...]
January 9, 2008
Nature Notebooks and Winter Birding!
I haven’t posted in a while about nature notebooks, and considering they’ve made a winter revival in our house I thought this post might be timely. One of my daughters is very keen about birding and diagramming, the other more into art and sketching. Winter birding; however, can rekindle a natural curiosity between said child [...]
