Posted in Journal on Apr 30th, 2008 3 Comments »
(from Thomas Wolfe: Look Homeward, Angel, which I haven’t read, but I liked the sound of the phrase)
What to write, what to write?
We walked — not just me and Aidan, but almost the whole crew were outside together. Aidan was pushing his purple wheelchair — good therapy, it is up and down hills […]
Posted in Journal on Apr 29th, 2008 2 Comments »
Title from an article about walking and poetry, called Walking with His Muse. I looked up walking because today Aidan and I went for our first spring walk. The older children have been roaming around the outdoors ever since the majority of the snow melted but this is the first time […]
Posted in Journal on Apr 27th, 2008 1 Comment »
I found a US History Timeline here at Wikipedia.
Kieron is my only older student next year, so I think I will use this or something like it as an outline and then fill it out with work from a variety of resources. I have a lot of them around the house. […]
Posted in Journal on Apr 27th, 2008 1 Comment »
NEAR the end of April,
On the verge of May –
And O my heart, the woods were dusk
At the close of day.
Half a word was spoken
Out of half a dream,
And God looked in my soul and saw
A dawn rise and gleam.
This is the first stanza of a poem called Near the End of April by someone […]
Posted in Links, Thinking about Learning on Apr 24th, 2008 1 Comment »
I liked this gestalt homeschooling post that Patience at Knitting the Wind shared from her old blog. Especially this part:
Rose has in her mind all the bits of information, but in a way that makes one great story. She is also being trained at a very gentle, almost unconscious, level to see […]
Posted in Journal on Apr 23rd, 2008 Comments Off
Title courtesy of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brronte.
A few bits and pieces about our life up here in the Sierras, since I probably won’t have time to blog regularly today:
Aidan had a clinic appointment yesterday at the therapy unit in town and then we went shopping, stocking up on groceries to the tune of a […]
Posted in Books on Apr 23rd, 2008 Comments Off
I finished reading City Kid. It was mostly an account of how Mary MacCracken, who wrote the book, went back to school to get a degree in order to continue working with troubled children in the city. The pointlessness and bureaucratic tyranny of her college experience was described in juxtaposition with […]
Posted in Journal on Apr 22nd, 2008 Comments Off
The poem is Azure and Gold by Amy Lowell. Since the poem deals with April, I thought it was suitable for my April habit of trying to find poetry lines to head up my blog entries. As for our snow, it is lingering in patches in the shadow of our house and […]
Posted in Journal on Apr 20th, 2008 2 Comments »
Tribe of Autodidacts is asking for living Biology resources for next year. There is a growing list in the comment box which I want to keep track of.
Julia at Musings of a Prairie Girl has a series of posts where she is pondering about Classical Education. I am linking to the one […]
Posted in Journal on Apr 20th, 2008 Comments Off
Paddy wanted me to play Battleships and Othello with him last night. He calls Othello “Checkpoint”. I have no idea why, but he is confident about it, and I like it so much I haven’t corrected him.
He has figured out a way to “cheat” at Battleships. He […]
