“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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Fine Arts Friday: Pick a tree, any tree
*This post contains affiliated links. I am bad at trees. Really bad. Like “acorn = oak, and that’s about all I know” bad. What can I say, I grew up in the desert! But I am committed to getting better because one of the benefits of homeschooling is that teacher gets to learn alongside her […]
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Fine Arts Friday: New Year, New Stuff
Cribbed from The Common Room’s Facebook Page — a thoroughly likable page. (Hint hint.) “‘Education is the Science of Relations’; that is, that a child has natural relations with a vast number of things and thoughts: so we train him upon physical exercises, nature lore, handicrafts, science and art, and upon many living books, for we […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Let the children play
This is not a regular Fine Arts Friday post. I’m not looking at a particular artist or composer, a method for studying nature, or why or how to incorporate handicrafts. It’s really not fine artsy at all, but it does encapsulate Charlotte Mason’s belief that “Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Christmas Poem
A Visit from St. Nicholas (or The Night Before Christmas) By Clement Clarke Moore (or maybe not) ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Nature in Winter
Texas, you may have heard, has had some unseasonably cold and wet weather. The ice that will not die has put a damper on our usual outdoor venturing. There’s nothing like not being able to get outside to realize how much time you spend outside. Even without sheets of ice, colder temperatures may tempt us […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Christmas!
*Yes, I know this is Saturday. But instead of being a good blogger and finishing and scheduling my post on Thursday night, I left it to finish Friday morning. Then the ice storm hit and we had no internet. I couldn’t finish or post it yesterday, so you get it today. Christmas is one of […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Autumn Walk
Last Tuesday, I drove by our local nature preserve and noticed half the trees were in full color and half were bare. I knew we needed to go soon if we were to enjoy any of the autumn display, so we spent last Wednesday afternoon on an extended nature walk. Fortunately, we got out there […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Busy Day
Today we had friends over for a craft day. It was a busy, full, crafty day. My friend and the kids made pipe cleaner penguin snow globes. And also pipe cleaner imposter penguins (AKA bunnies) and pipe cleaner Adam and Jamie of Mythbusters. A closer look at the Mythbusters. Adam is a little abstract. […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Slowing down
At the beginning of this series of posts on fine arts, I explained why I’m spending one day each week focusing on arts (and natures study). I wrote that I’m teaching fine arts (and nature studies) “to provide true and good and beautiful things upon which my children can feast.” That is absolutely still true. […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Crisp Fall Day
We’re spending the day at the Dallas Arboretum looking at their houses o’ gourds. We also may do this great fall mixed-media art project from That Artist Woman. I’ve saved my egg shells and everything. It’s a new month so new songs. Our folk song is an Irish tune called “The Rose of Tralee.” […]
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