Young C.S. Lewis pled with his father, ‘Please take me out of this as soon as possible…’[1] It was March 1914 and Lewis was referring to the public school he was attending, and at this early stage, we see seeds of kinship between Lewis’ views of education and modern […]
It’s time to get those doodles mailed in! The due date for “Doodle 4 Google‘ is coming up March 20th. The theme is “If I could travel in time, I’d visit…” My daughter chose ancient Athens since that’s what we’ve been studying about in history this year. She did […]
Starting with a cardboard box, my young artist began to create a scene to illustrate one of the well-known poems we’ve read this week: “The Road Less Taken” by Robert Frost. She collected some twigs from outside and using some glue, added Flower-Soft to some of the small branches. She […]
The butterflies finally came out!! Our two plump parsley caterpillars we caughton our carrots emerged from their chrysalises. Isn’t she pretty? It’s amazing to me that the only markings that remained from her caterpillar costume were the yellow spots on her body. The first one hatched when we weren’t paying attention, so we checked […]
We had a great time visiting Pioneer Farms yesterday. Last week was only our first week back at “school” and I was already hankerin’ to get out of the house and see something new! The folks out there have done a terrific job of setting up a little town and surrounding […]
I was given an assignment in photo class called “windows and mirrors”. The challenge was to take some pictures that either conveyed the way I view the world around me or that were self-reflective. Unable to capture what I wanted in one single picture, I wound up singling out 5 photographs that, when viewed one after […]
Lately, my 7 year old has been coming to me with heavy sighs, saying pitifully,” I’m bored, I don’t know what to do.” Now, this is something new and not at all normal for her. […]
We headed out to the local library today. Our home library does not contain a set of encyclopedias, so we were forced to pursue public resources for some of our school work this week. My 7th grader also needed a book on market bubbles. More on that later. As we entered […]