Category Archives: Homeschooling Adventures

Fresh Air: It’s for Your Health

“Every hour spent in the open is a clear gain, tending to the increase of brain power and bodily vigour, and to the lengthening of life itself. They who know what it is to have fevered skin and throbbing brain deliciously soothed by the cool touch of the air are inclined to make a new […]

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Teaching Virtues to Little Hearts {VTB giveaway}

[Details regarding the giveaway of the Virtue Training Bible at the end of the post. Don’t miss out!] Do you remember when I wrote about the Child Training Bible? Well, yes, we just love our Child Training Bible!  It is so wonderful when there is a character issue that needs attention or when we want […]

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Nourishing the Mind

“We cannot measure the influence that one or another artist has upon the child’s sense of beauty, upon his power of seeing, as in a picture, the common sights of life; he is enriched more than we know in having really looked at even a single picture.” -Charlotte Mason   The girls were working on […]

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Education {at home}

“Thank goodness I was never sent to schools … it would have rubbed off some of the originality.” -Beatrix Potter     September, with its fresh crisp mornings and warm afternoons, cool evenings and painted leaf-tips, is here. And so it begins … another chapter in our homeschooling journey … the pencils are freshly sharpened, […]

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Fall Fair 2016 {and a lot of animals}

“The crickets sang in the grasses. They sang the song of summer’s ending, a sad monotonous song. “Summer is over and gone, over and gone, over and gone. Summer is dying, dying.” A little maple tree heard the cricket song and turned bright red with anxiety.”  ― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web That time has come […]

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