Our visiting wallaby enjoying the new growth after all the rain we've had: Henry VIII was the last play that Shakespeare wrote and in it he describes the events that led up to the birth of King Henry’s daughter by Anne Boleyn. This week we read Act 5, Scene 2, where the King warns the … Continue reading It’s Friday #2
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Notebook Showcase #3
This week I'm featuring some Nature Journal/Nature Notebooks done by the Feldman family. The page below is from a 6 year old boy's nature notebook. Lucila writes, 'Not much to show here yet! I added the black pen line to show him how it would stand out, and to demonstrate that the veins didn't actually … Continue reading Notebook Showcase #3
Notebook Showcase #2
This week I'm featuring two families to show their 'keeping' practices in a Charlotte Mason education. The first photograph below is of a Nature Display that the Ellery family have in their home. Adele has a newborn and a toddler and teaches her two older girls using the Ambleside Online curriculum, which they have used … Continue reading Notebook Showcase #2
It’s Friday
Week 4 of Ambleside Online Year 12 - some of what we covered: biology, Middle East & mapwork, current events, and common place book. The Lord God Made The All is our Natural History read aloud this year. I also read Ourselves by Charlotte Mason aloud and we discuss it. This week we read about … Continue reading It’s Friday
Ambleside Online Year 12 in Australia
Year 12 has looked different every time we've done it. These are my initial, to be updated, plans for this year for my daughter who's just turned 17 using some selections from Ambleside Online (those are marked with an *) and adding other material I'd like her to cover. We're going into Week 3 as … Continue reading Ambleside Online Year 12 in Australia
Towards an Australian Charlotte Mason Curriculum
This is a page in progress with ideas for living books, related to Australia in some way, that we've used. I'll link to any reviews I've written and give a recommended age or an Ambleside Online year if you're looking for Australian substitutes. Picture Books - various ages The March … Continue reading Towards an Australian Charlotte Mason Curriculum
Sun on the Stubble by Colin Thiele
Sun on the Stubble is an Australian classic first published in 1961 and later adapted for television and was written by a prolific Australian author, Colin Thiele (1920-2006). We've read a number of his books, mainly for the younger set, and I'd heard of this book but didn't get to read it until my eldest … Continue reading Sun on the Stubble by Colin Thiele
Ambleside Online Year 7 Highlights
Year 7 has finished up for the seventh time in our home, although this was only the second time we've used Ambleside Online for Year 7. As I usually do, I asked my daughter which books were her favourites from this year's work, but I gave her a limit of ten. These are the books … Continue reading Ambleside Online Year 7 Highlights
6 Years of Blogging: Then & Now…
Six years ago this month I published my first blog post. I'd always enjoyed writing and had been part of a Charlotte Mason Families Newsletter for a few years where families took turns sending out a newsletter to a whole lot of other families around Australia. (Erin at Seven Little Australians was one of the … Continue reading 6 Years of Blogging: Then & Now…
Mr Standfast – How do I Love Thee? Let me Count the Ways…
This is the third time I’ve read Mr Standfast by John Buchan. It’s one of my favourite books by this author and the third time around hasn’t diminished my ardour.Mr. Standfast is the third book of five in Buchan’s Richard Hannay novels that began with The Thirty-Nine Steps, and was followed by Greenmantle. The book … Continue reading Mr Standfast – How do I Love Thee? Let me Count the Ways…
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