“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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Searching For and Sharing Beauty
Like many people, I stumble upon a lot fun, touching, or interesting things online, which I often share for other people to enjoy. (I also stumble across a lot of outrage, but I’m trying to get away from sharing most of that. It seems the world is mad enough without my encouragement.) But I’ve noticed […]
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Fine Arts Friday: It’s been a while.
But we’ve still been doing fine arts and not just on Friday! Seriously, the þing is probably the best thing we’ve done all year. Nay, all my homeschooling experience. It’s been awesome. Even if everything else goes off the rails, I know that we’ve had at least an hour of truth, beauty, and goodness. Three cheers […]
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Fine Arts Friday: The þing
*þing is pronounced “thing. Yes, I could just write “thing,” but where’s the fun in that? This year, we’ve moved away from the “Fine Arts Friday” model to a “Morning Time” model. I’ll post some resources to find out more about the concept at the end of the post, but basically we spend about an hour […]
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Happy St. Nicholas Day!
Remember, neither Santa nor his inspiration are to be trifled with. The Boy Who Laughed at Santa by Ogden Nash In Baltimore there lived a boy. He wasn’t anybody’s joy. Although his name was Jabez Dawes, His character was full of flaws. In school he never led his classes, He hid old ladies’ reading […]
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Fine Arts Friday: There’s Nothing Like the Sun
There’s nothing like the sun as the year dies; Kind as it can be, this world being made so, To stones and men and beasts and birds and flies – To all things that it touches except snow, Whether on mountain side or street or town. The south wall warms me: November has begun, Yet […]
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Yesterday’s spark
There are moments in the life of the teacher when an assignment hits a different note with your student and the ordinary becomes magical. A spark is lit and bursts into flame. During a routine writing assignment yesterday, I read the poem “The Brook” by Tennyson to 8-year-old Satchmo. We read a fair amount of […]
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Fine Arts Friday: the substitution of art
My mother keeps sending me pictures of her beautiful snowfall–from the desert.* Meanwhile, we have just had twenty-four hours of cold rain, and no snow for the entire winter. In fact, we’ve had very few days cold enough to snow should precipitation occur. I want a snow day! But where reality fails, art prevails. I’ll […]
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400 years old and still relevant
It’s National Poetry Day, and in honor of the day and apropos of current events, this poem seems fitting: No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well […]
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Picking up on cultural context
A came across this fascinating video about The Globe Theater’s attempts to perform some of Shakespeare’s plays in the original dialects. (Just a head’s up if you have little ones about: There are some bawdy jokes that are discussed–evident in the original that have been lost as dialects change.) Recently, I listened to the Teaching […]
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The best-laid schemes o’ mice an ‘men gang aft agley
I’m a planner. I like to have a strategy and a backup plan, and alternatives for my backup plans. I spent all Saturday planning and reworking the plan for the upcoming school week. And I. Was. Ready. But, well, you know the saying: “The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” Which […]
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