We have reached the point in homeschooling where copywork is no longer merely handwriting practice. The need of letters to trace and special lined paper has faded away. It is now transitioning into sentence structure, spelling and basic grammar. Previously, copywork was a “sentence […]
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For me, reading a “living book’ such as Parables from Nature can be like hiking up a rugged mountain. Confusion of direction sets in, yet I move forward. My mind strains under rich vocabulary, yet I move forward. I move forward through a vocabulary of complexity,
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I love it when a-ha moments come from simple moments of delightful conversation. It’s even more delightful when those conversations are compounded and reinforced by seemingly unrelated sources. One such conversation began at a recent church potluck. Lighthearted, fun, enjoyable. The words spoken planted a
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Caterpillars. Green, brown. Fuzzy, smooth. Never gave them a second thought until last weekend-now they are an obsession in our household. What caused this metamorphosis? Simple. We encountered someone with a caterpillar passion. A contagious caterpillar passion. One that ignited our minds with an enduring
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I love book sales, you could even say addicted. The cheap frugal prices of ink covered pages induce an endorphin rush plunging me into another pile. With booklist in hand, I’m an Ancient Warrior Homeschool Mom-hunting for elusive books that I know must exist if
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Endings can be sad, rewarding, exciting or even uneventful. Today marks several endings for me. No monumental shout from the rafters type of endings, but silent emotionally zealous endings. End of Classroom Teaching (I thought) It was about this time last year that my secret was revealed and our intent
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Release yourself from the past and prepare for the future so you can shine brightly in the today. Allow yourself to shine this day. Let a car cut in front of you and wave happily as they pass. Search for miracles and hope in reality.
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Odds are high the twenty-fourth letter of the alphabet will offer a good substitute if you don’t know something. Wilhelm Röntgen didn’t know what to call a newly discovered form of radiation, so he named them x-rays. The world didn’t know what to call the generation born
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Wisdom begins in wonder. Wonder begins when you form relations with the world around you. Have you been awe inspired by a sunrise? Have you ever rejoiced in the wonder of a rainbow? Beauty compels you, it draws you in as you seek to understand a world
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Vectors-mathematical expressions of magnitude and direction that conjure up frightful memories of college physics. They drove me nuts. I’d want to go one way, they would point the other. Madness. I’d over-analyze and break bend a few pencils along the way. I can still remember looking in disbelief
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