Glorious Rain, Awesome School Day
Written by admin on October 25th, 2007Do you know how glorious it feels to look out and see this:
That, friends, is a rain barrel overflowing.
We live in an area in the south that has been severely affected by drought. We have not had a rain like this in months! Literally, months. My plants are singing.
This morning’s school lessons were awesome. My 11th grade son is really not a boy anymore. He’s nearly a man. We learn together, like we always have, but I can’t really steer him like I did when he was little. We talk and interact. I am so very thankful, however, that he has an obedient spirit and he continues to indulge me in teaching him the things I think he should know.
We are into a more classical bent these days. The early years were relaxed and fun and pretty much unit studies and hands-on fun. Now, I am pushing Joseph harder to focus on languages and history. Our greatest gap is probably math, but I know we can conquer that as well. Perhaps math will be the icing on this delicious cake that has been the privilege of homeschooling a child.
We watched a VHS this morning about Greece and Rome.
I am itching to put a new timeline on the wall that highlights the great ages of history, but it’ll have to wait until tomorrow. I have to head out in about half an hour for work. I can go to work rejoicing over the rain and all we accomplished this morning.
I found a shelf at the thrift store that is exactly what I have been looking for. I have bookshelves all over the house, but I needed one area to unify the books and sheets and movies that we are working through currently. I love this tablestop shelf, which gives me a bookcase on top and a place to lay things underneath.
I look forward to reading with all the children tomorrow about history. I have an old text that I want to read to them from. We’ll learn more about all that today’s world took from the Greeks and the Romans.
The Hundred Dresses
The Family Under the Bridge
Caddie Woodlawn. With the Wisconsin big woods theme, goes along great with a FIAR study of The Raft.
A Year Down Yonder
A Charlotte Mason Companion: Personal Reflections on the Gentle Art of Learning
Pocketful of Pinecones: Nature Study With the Gentle Art of Learning: A Story for Mother Culture. Sweet fictional story about a newly homeschooling mother who incorporates nature study.
Nature Crafts for Kids: 50 Fantastic Things to Make With Mother Nature's Help
The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
Awakening Beauty the Dr. Hauschka Way
A Redbird Christmas: A Novel
The Usborne Internet-Linked Book of Knowledge
What Your Fifth Grader Needs to Know
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