My two youngest bought me this Typoflora planner/diary/journal for my birthday and it's just perfect. It's been years since I've had the 'right' one of these that suits my style of relaxed planning and space for reflections or just recording snippets of a day. I love that this is nature focused and isn't too large … Continue reading A New Year, a Blank Page
Nature Study in Australia
Reading, Thinking, & Domesticity #7
I'm working on an applique quilt and have been chugging along quite nicely. I've almost finished a fourth block. The biggest hold up for me is choosing material. I have stacks left over from other projects but trying to choose complementary fabrics is so time consuming! I started a monthly sewing/craft day last month and … Continue reading Reading, Thinking, & Domesticity #7
Little Pago by Lauren Briggs
Little Pago is an attractive and engaging picture book for children aged about 2 to 5 years written and illustrated by Lauren Briggs, an Australian mother of four. Published in 2021, the book highlights the problem of plastic pollution in the ocean, which presents a critical threat to our marine life. The author explains her … Continue reading Little Pago by Lauren Briggs
A Charlotte Mason Education: the ‘extras’ that sometimes get left out in high school
The week before last I had a phone call from the Symphony Manager of the orchestra my daughter is a part of. Her son and two friends had entered an Eisteddfod competition and the cellist had just pulled out due to sickness. She asked if Miss 17 could play in his place - the only … Continue reading A Charlotte Mason Education: the ‘extras’ that sometimes get left out in high school
Notebook Showcase #4
Maria has a five year old son and she sent me these photos of his notebook. She said that, 'I write what he tells me in response to the info we are capturing and if he has additional comments, these are recorded by me under “Isaiah’s notes.”After our birds unit study, Isaiah was fascinated with … Continue reading Notebook Showcase #4
It’s Friday #2
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
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
October Nature Study in Australia
Last weekend we went on a bush walk and saw an echidna out in the open. Usually we hear them before we see them but this one was in the middle of a path through some bush. The varied gold, brown tones of its spikes were in their full glory so it took me some … Continue reading October Nature Study in Australia
Dispatches from Lockdown #2
Just about all the men we know have grown beards, if they didn't have one already, and many are sporting razor cuts or obvious amateur jobs. It's desperate days when your husband gets his 16 year old daughter to razor cut his hair. It doesn't look too bad, actually, despite my initial horror when he … Continue reading Dispatches from Lockdown #2
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