Morning Gathering
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moreHomeschool Routines and Rhythms
On Thursday, November 19 th, 2009`What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.’ – Joseph Addison You learn to speak by speaking, to study by stud...
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morePoems We have Loved
On Monday, October 26 th, 2009A kind reader slipped a note asking for a poetry title or two for children, so we pulled some favorite anthologies off our shelves…. Amazon.com Widgets And please, if you have a favorite anthology of poems that you have lingered long over and have loved, do share! Share your thoughts?…Would you like Holy Experience posts quietly delivered to your inbox?…
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Slow Down: for Words and Dreams
On Friday, October 16 th, 2009When I light the candles for the afternoon gathering of books and blankets and baskets of read alouds, they come too with creativity, their yarn and needles, weavings and colors, paints and journals … and the hours find other time, the lungs a new air. ...
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moreA Day in the Life of Homeschooling: 7 Rungs
On Thursday, October 08 th, 2009“The best thing you can do for your fellow next to rousing his conscience, is — not to give him things to think about - but to wake things...
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moreA Life BookList: Free Journal to Record Your Reading
On Wednesday, September 02 nd, 2009If you’d like to chronicle your reading trails, leave a trace of titles that have formed you… or encourage your children to record all the books they have read…. Veritas Press is offering a free download of A Life BookList Journal, a journal of “Literary Adventures“…. Just jot down the title, date, and leave your own starred...
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moreHow to Feed Brains Everyday (Daily Links for Hungry Minds)
On Thursday, August 27 th, 2009Fed Your Brain Today? Daily Brain Links Links to click everyday for all the lifelong learners…. Want to foster lifelong learning? Check out these ̶...
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moreHomeschool Planning
On Thursday, August 13 th, 2009a snippet of the plans for this year… Part of my Homeschooling Planning this year … I’m very much looking forward to using Tanglewood’s Charlotte Mason planner…. seemed like a very good fit this year Drawing up planning sheets like this … For the last several years I’ve drawn up my own template based on the momagenda f...
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morePreparing A Home For Learning…
On Thursday, August 13 th, 2009repost from the archives as we again prepare for a fresh season of exploring… “Home…Family is where your story begins” … hanging over the study room entry. So we begin the story here with days of home learning. And learning to love, like bumping over washboard potholes down a gravel road: it’s bumpy at times, but we are pray...
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moreHow to Nurture Geniuses
On Tuesday, June 23 rd, 2009Dormant geniuses lie sleeping down the hall. They eat across from us at the breakfast table, sit next to us in mini-vans taxiing to soccer fields, even look back at us from our bathroom mirrors. What if genius is the normative intent of what God’ bestows and our own lack of faithful stewardship results in malnourished gifts? László and Klara Polgár, parents of three daugh...
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moreThe Multiplying of Loaves and Fishes
On Saturday, May 09 th, 2009Do you know what He’s done through you? You’ve clothed and fed school children in Georgia and Armenia.You’ve bought moringa trees for families in Africa.You’ve provided micro-loans to families in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawai.You’ve supported an education for girls in China.You’ve stocked medical clinics and furnished classr...
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moreHummin’ Along: How to Compose New Habits
On Tuesday, November 04 th, 2008As we work on our November Habit Lists, keeping these thoughts at the fore…. I have flailed and I have failed. Too many days I have meted out grating cacophony, loose and disordered. There’s a time to stir porridge, but someone howls, “I can’t find socks!” and I’m digging about for two purple ones the same size, preferably holeless, to soothe teary angst, while ...
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moreWonders: A Nature Table Gathering
On Wednesday, October 22 nd, 2008A walk in light and sun and wind and blazing world…. and we gather, set the world as the centerpiece in the midst of the stitched scraps, gathered too. And the toadstools, mushrooms, morels, fungi, quiet accordions of shy flesh collected, wait for the naming on snippets of paper, child takin...
