Have lots of fun. Smell Maddie's head for me, kiss her soft cheeks and tell her I will meet her soon!
Monday, June 14, 2010
Just For Kaley
Isn't it pretty?! Hope you can see them ok, my camera isn't as good as yours.
Have lots of fun. Smell Maddie's head for me, kiss her soft cheeks and tell her I will meet her soon!
Have lots of fun. Smell Maddie's head for me, kiss her soft cheeks and tell her I will meet her soon!
Long Absence
It has certainly been awhile. Life is busy, babies making blogging very hard, facebook cheapens me in a way. It makes it quick and easy to keep up with others but not putting any thought to it.
I just attended the 6th annual Childlight USA Charlotte Mason Conference. It was so wonderful and encouraging, as usual. It inspired me to plan our best school year ever. We have been homeschooling with the Charlotte Mason method since Kaley was 5 years old. She lived in Victorian England and died before WWII. Her method lives on and is rooted in great truths. This explains it well. http://amblesideonline.org/CM/20Principles.html
Here's a great quote from Charlotte, a huge part of the philosophy of education.
"Education is a life; that life is sustained on ideas. Ideas are of spiritual origin, and God has made us that we get them chiefly as we convey them to one another, whether by word of mouth, written page, Scripture word, musical symphony; but we must sustain a child's inner life with ideas as we sustain his body with food."
And this:
"One of our presumptuous sins in this connection is that we venture to offer opinions to children (and to older persons) instead of ideas. We believe that an opinion expresses thought and therefore embodies an idea."
And she quotes John Stuart Mill:
"What the poor, as well as the rich, require is not to be taught other people's opinions, but to be induced and enabled to think for themselves."
Isn't that great?! I have had the joy of seeing my daughter finish her high schools years of education. She is never done learning, she knows how to get at anything she wants and continues to grow and learn so much. It is thrilling for me to watch her, she stands on my shoulders.
One last Charlotte quote:
"All I have said is meant to enforce the fact that much and varied humane reading, as well as human thought expressed in the forms of art is, not a luxury, a tit-bit, to be given to children now and then, but their very bread of life, which they must have in abundant portions and at regular periods."
I am planning quite a feast to set before the children this school year. And a good summer of relaxed reading and nature study. And lots of swimming and blackberry picking!
So these pictures are mainly for my sister in NY who never gets to see my gardens. They are no where near as beautiful as hers, but I am quite excited about my two tone bee balm this year.
Here is my mammoth sunflowers. They just reseed every year now, I have to pull them and I can't stand it. They attract so many goldfinches. You can see how big they are, Curtiss is hiding in there and they just started blooming. I do have a veggie garden in there somewhere :)
My lovely bee balm. This is my fragrant herb garden. Bee balm, lavender, rosemary, lemon balm, peppermint and chamomile. Also thrown in are purple cone flowers and volunteer black eyed susans.
The Lavender.
The bee balm that is two colors??
I'll try to keep up better, posting pictures etc.
Blessings to all!
I just attended the 6th annual Childlight USA Charlotte Mason Conference. It was so wonderful and encouraging, as usual. It inspired me to plan our best school year ever. We have been homeschooling with the Charlotte Mason method since Kaley was 5 years old. She lived in Victorian England and died before WWII. Her method lives on and is rooted in great truths. This explains it well. http://amblesideonline.org/CM/20Principles.html
Here's a great quote from Charlotte, a huge part of the philosophy of education.
"Education is a life; that life is sustained on ideas. Ideas are of spiritual origin, and God has made us that we get them chiefly as we convey them to one another, whether by word of mouth, written page, Scripture word, musical symphony; but we must sustain a child's inner life with ideas as we sustain his body with food."
And this:
"One of our presumptuous sins in this connection is that we venture to offer opinions to children (and to older persons) instead of ideas. We believe that an opinion expresses thought and therefore embodies an idea."
And she quotes John Stuart Mill:
"What the poor, as well as the rich, require is not to be taught other people's opinions, but to be induced and enabled to think for themselves."
Isn't that great?! I have had the joy of seeing my daughter finish her high schools years of education. She is never done learning, she knows how to get at anything she wants and continues to grow and learn so much. It is thrilling for me to watch her, she stands on my shoulders.
One last Charlotte quote:
"All I have said is meant to enforce the fact that much and varied humane reading, as well as human thought expressed in the forms of art is, not a luxury, a tit-bit, to be given to children now and then, but their very bread of life, which they must have in abundant portions and at regular periods."
I am planning quite a feast to set before the children this school year. And a good summer of relaxed reading and nature study. And lots of swimming and blackberry picking!
So these pictures are mainly for my sister in NY who never gets to see my gardens. They are no where near as beautiful as hers, but I am quite excited about my two tone bee balm this year.
Here is my mammoth sunflowers. They just reseed every year now, I have to pull them and I can't stand it. They attract so many goldfinches. You can see how big they are, Curtiss is hiding in there and they just started blooming. I do have a veggie garden in there somewhere :)
My lovely bee balm. This is my fragrant herb garden. Bee balm, lavender, rosemary, lemon balm, peppermint and chamomile. Also thrown in are purple cone flowers and volunteer black eyed susans.
The Lavender.
The bee balm that is two colors??
I'll try to keep up better, posting pictures etc.
Blessings to all!
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