Endings can be sad, rewarding, exciting or even uneventful. Today marks several endings for me. No monumental shout from the rafters type of endings, but silent emotionally zealous endings. End of Classroom Teaching (I thought) It was about this time last year that my secret was revealed and our intent to homeschool became known. An ending that offered rewards greater …
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Release yourself from the past and prepare for the future so you can shine brightly in the today. Allow yourself to shine this day. Let a car cut in front of you and wave happily as they pass. Search for miracles and hope in reality. Dance a dance that no one will see. Open your …
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Odds are high the twenty-fourth letter of the alphabet will offer a good substitute if you don’t know something. Wilhelm Röntgen didn’t know what to call a newly discovered form of radiation, so he named them x-rays. The world didn’t know what to call the generation born between the mid-1960s and the late-1970s, so it was named Generation …
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Here it is. The end of our first homeschool year. We will still be working on math and reading daily during the summer, but formal learning will pause as outdoor adventures await. I do foresee spontaneous reports on animals and nature we encounter-not assignments that I require, but ones that my daughter eagerly engages in…just because she wants to. For …
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Wisdom begins in wonder. Wonder begins when you form relations with the world around you. Have you been awe inspired by a sunrise? Have you ever rejoiced in the wonder of a rainbow? Beauty compels you, it draws you in as you seek to understand a world that may seem outside of your grasp. Beauty, such as …
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Vectors-mathematical expressions of magnitude and direction that conjure up frightful memories of college physics. They drove me nuts. I’d want to go one way, they would point the other. Madness. I’d over-analyze and break bend a few pencils along the way. I can still remember looking in disbelief at my first test results in college physics. Let’s just …
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Sounds of mathematical facts, reading and narration fill our home. The sounds are a result of careful planting. The planting of knowledge. A unique harvest is now in our storehouses. The rafters are full of Shakespeare, mathematics, literature, art, science and history. We walked a different path and did not look back. On our forward path, we watched tiny green …
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I had the privilege to have a test writing genius as one of my professors in college. I loved to take his tests. Crazy, huh?! Magic would flow from his hands as he wrote works of art lasting only one hour. With simple pencil, paper and calculator any misconceptions and/or inaccuracies you had about …
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Striving for simple sanity is difficult as voices call you from all directions. It seems impossible as dishes pile higher and obligations mount. Another project due, another meeting to attend, another event to schedule. Stop. It’s time to breathe. But how? The voices grow louder, the dishes pile even higher and the calender is overbooked. It’s …
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Trees are blossoming, dandelions are still growing and warm weather seems to have finally made its way home. That was, until a cold front entered our area and once again the fireplace is turned on. It’s somewhat comical to think that 55° F feels chilly considering a few weeks ago it would have seemed like a heat …
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