“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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Fine Arts Friday: Carrot in the carrot cake
Our Fine Arts Friday is officially kaput. Next week, Fridays will be devoted to enrichment days at a local private school. To be fair, the kids will be taking art (at least three of the four will), and we’re going to be stopping and picnicking and hiking at our local nature preserve. But it won’t […]
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Paddling from sea to shining sea
This post contains affiliated links. Last spring when I was looking for geography curriculum, I came across a free resource for U.S. Geography, 50 States and Where to Find Them by Kathy Jo DeVore of Barefoot Meandering. (I honestly cannot remember where at this point. I really ought to write that stuff down. Thanks whoever […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Reworking the schedule
We’re coming to the end of our Fine Arts Friday. Not the study of fine arts, mind you, or even posts on this blog. However, this is the end to our having a single day to focus on fine arts. Fridays will now be devoted to enrichment classes for the younger three. Little Miss has […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Appreciation
Taking a break from the whys and hows of studying fine arts to merely soak in the beauty, and the fun, In case of survival, recovery is slow, often taking more than one pill per day as generic viagra 100mg it can cause severe unwanted reactions. The drug world has been loaded with a large […]
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Fine Arts Friday: the end of folksongs?
As we’ve been studying American history, I’ve been choosing folk songs to go along with the era studied. Right now we’re in the 30s, and while it’s still possible to find folk songs that go with the era, the type of folk song is changing. Last month, I chose a popular song that was adopted […]
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Fine Arts Friday: the art of the soundtrack
Today you’re in for a special treat. My friend Erika Franz is the author of today’s guest post on soundtracks, specifically the soundtracks of science fiction. The idea for the post was born of a conversation that came out of this post and the idea that movie soundtracks are the natural extension of operas and musical […]
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America, art, Charlotte Mason, Declaration of Independence, folk songs, history, holiday, hymns, Independence Day, music
Fine Arts Friday: the Art of America’s Founding
John Adams was (almost) right about this glorious day: “The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Kentucky edition
We’re still in Louisville, so I thought I’d do a Kentucky-themed folk song (and the state song), “My Old Kentucky Home.” Frederick Douglass once said the song awakened “the sympathies for the slave, in which anti-slavery principles take root and flourish.” It’s striking that in 1852 a song that rather mildly suggests that the lives […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Steeped in story
This post contains affiliated links. This afternoon, we’re all laying around reading and listening to our folk song playlist until it’s time to go to my daughter’s softball tournament. It’s a nice bit of downtime sandwiched between to periods of frantic activity, and I’m appreciating the mellow atmosphere. The girls are listening to Rilla of […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Play Day
Last winter, Little Miss and I participated in a survey at the Perot Museum for which participation we were given tickets for the IMAX theater at the museum. The tickets expired at the end of this month, so MTG took a day off and we spent the morning at the Perot and the afternoon at […]
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